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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Current news items on War Debts for years back have created a grossly exaggerated view of the size of international war debts. An example of this is contained in your editorial comment (TIME, Aug. 8). You state the present national wealth of the United States at $329,700,000,000 and you give the War Debts to the United States at $22,230,000,000. The present value of the national wealth is $329,700,000,000. The present value, on a 3½% interest basis, of the payments totalling $22,230,000,000 which we are scheduled to receive...
Dates. Hot primaries involving Senatorial nominations: South Carolina, Aug. 30; California, Aug. 30; Louisiana and Wisconsin, Sept. 13; Georgia, Sept...
...week for a breather before reassembling sometime between September and January, having completely baffled the world as to what they had really accomplished. Almost as baffled was tall, hawk-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, veteran of a dozen conferences, who last week followed lese-majestic Herbert George Wells (TIME, Aug. 8) as guest lecturer at the Oxford Liberal Summer School. He mused that "if Europe and America agreed on a common world Disarmament policy Japan could not stand out alone against it." But as the actual record of accomplishment, he said...
Only real bait offered was a cash bonus of ?1 for every ?100 worth of bonds converted prior to Aug. 1. Obviously to convert was no business transaction. It was a great act of united national patriotism. To put it over all the stops of Wartime propaganda were pulled out. Posters went up on the hoardings, there were placards in Trafalgar Square. Orators spellbound theatre audiences in the intermissions. Newspapers printed honor rolls of firms who had converted all their War Loan Bonds, heaped honors on superpatriots who refused to accept their ?1 cash bonuses. And it worked...
...their oats in Dublin last week and tripped round & round the paddock in parti-colored flannel blankets. It was the opening of the Dublin Horse Show, greatest event in the Irish social season and an annual magnet for scores of U. S. sportsmen on their way north for Scotland, Aug. 12 and grouse...