Word: augusts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SILVER SENATORS have made one of the most concrete advances on the Left front. From 35? an ounce in August the price of silver shot to 45? an ounce on Jan. 2, due to the pressure of Messrs. Thomas, King, Wheeler (left to right below) toward monetizing silver and the resultant Presidential order for Treasury purchases of silver, much like RFC purchases of gold. True, the new gold-silver ratio is only 53-to-1 as compared to Bryan's 16-to-1 formula, but that is only a first step, say the Silver Senators...
...original Paris Crédit Municipal was founded by King Louis XVI, as a noble experiment to see whether the rapacity of private lenders could be checked by the State. It could. Under the august patronage of Napoleon I and his successors, pawnbroking in France has made steady, philanthropic strides. No Crédit Municipal can be founded without the assent of the President of the Republic. Those at Grenoble and Montpellier are so heavily endowed that their interest charge to needy borrowers is zero. In Paris the Crédit Municipal has its seat in an 18th Century palace...
According to the new scheme, 180 players will graduate from the sectional qualifying rounds next August directly into the tournament match-play at Brookline, Mass. in September. Former champions will be exempt from qualifying. With the enlarged quota of eligibles (180 instead of 160) there is less chance of able players being eliminated in qualifying play...
...Atop a pinnacle of Wall Street power in 1930 sat Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the governing board of Chase National Bank, world's largest. Trailing down from this august height was a vast hierarchy of 85 directors, 80 vice presidents, 72 second vice presidents, a cashier and 107 assistants, two comptrollers and six assistants, 41 assistant trust officers, 31 assistant managers and some 8,000 employes. The president of Chase Bank held a relatively "minor" job, being outranked not only by Mr. Wiggin but also by the chairman of the executive committee and the chairman and vice chairman...
When for the second time President Roosevelt ordered gold out of hoarding and into the Treasury last August, there rose to plague him this legal question: should the order, under the Emergency Banking Act, have been signed by the Secretary of the Treasury? Last week Acting Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau cleaned up the legal debris by issuing a new order calling in gold. More drastic than the President's, it carried no exemption for holders of $100 or less; fixed an additional penalty for evasion at twice the amount of gold held. "There is several million around...