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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager of Chase National Bank's Havana branch (1927-31). The Chase Bank first loaned the Machado Government $30,000,000, paid off by an issue of gold , bonds payable in 1945; then another $20,000,000 which is still frozen on its hands. Cubans like to add some additional data: Electric Bond & Share is supposed to have provided the $500,000 campaign fund that won Machado his first election; as an inaugural present an official of Electric Bond & Share is supposed to have given him a $20,000 armored car; of Chase's $30,000,000 first...
...father's death in 1891, Hearst got a $7,500,000 advance on his fabulous patrimony. For $180,000 he bought the doddering Journal and stalked quietly into New York to knock the breath out of imperious, blind Joseph Pulitzer. Few knew he was there until. to add to the cream of his imported San Francisco staff, he began buying up Pulitzer's best brains-including Arthur Brisbane-and in addition made Pulitzer accept 1? instead of 2? for his paper. Richard Harding Davis and a dozen other star writers were also at call. The sensationalism with which...
...could add all the English mountains and hills to the landscape around Denver, and they would not be noticed. What would Shakespeare have said or written if he could have seen THIS "blessed plot," that stretches 3000 miles from one ocean to the other, including within its borders Arctic and tropical regions, its 48 States, with absolute free trade, not a custom house separating them? Arthur Brisbane in The Boston American...
...because of this tendency to sacrifice the future for the present, actual historical inflation has been disastrous wherever tried; the financing of the World War, which resulted in great long-run damage despite immediate benefits, is a good example of this. The certainty that uncontrolled inflation would only add to the already deranged condition of the foreign exchange, upon the stability of which depends in large measure the economic recovery of the world, is another strong reason for the rigid control of currency expansion...
...Professor of History, in a recent CRIMSON interview. "It really is none of any other country's business. Protest meetings such as have been held in this country and in England, and even such denouncement of the Hitler movement as was made by Chamberlain the other day merely add fuel to the fire. It shows a stupid ignorance of history on the part of those protesting--for it is to be remembered that it was the severe condemnation of the outer world which led to the final supremacy of Lenin in Russia, with his Bolshevist movement, and which finally...