Word: americans
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...causes for the return of "public confidence" which created the speculative craze of that period. The surplus wealth, he said, saved by cautious people mindful of previous bad times, became too recklessly invested with the return of national prosperity. So inexhaustible seemed the reservoir of American capital that ambitious promoters combined already enormous companies and formed collateral trusts to give room for the investments the public was so anxious to make. Before long, however, the enormous inflation of stocks and bonds without corresponding increase in the real property behind them, was detected by the people. They refused to make further...
...United States agent in the Behring Sea Arbitration at Paris in 1893 and was a member of the Anglo-Canadian Commission in 1898. At the invitation of the Emperor of China he participated in the peace negotiations with Japan. Mr. Foster is the author of "A Century of American Diplomacy" and "American Diplomacy in the Orient." He is a graduate of the Indiana State University and studied for one year in the Harvard Law School...
During the years from 1891 to 1896 the production of commodities in this country was greater than the consumption; since then the reverse has been true, and the consequent revival of industrial trade has made the "American invasion" of foreign markets more feared abroad than Chinese cheap labor...
...November 25, before the New England Council of Education; December 9, before the New York Round Table; December 10, in the morning, before the Schoolmasters' Association of New York, and in the evening, under the auspices of the New York Department of Education, at Cooper Union, on "The Characteristic American Faith in Education...
...lecture this evening, Mr. Noyes will discuss the industrial revival after 1896, the causes and circumstances of the financial recovery from the previous hard times, the prosperity of the agricultural regions, and the so-called "American Invasion" of foreign markets, with its economic and political consequences...