Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are also two notes in the new legislation department of the Review. The first is entitled "The Delegates of Discretion in Massachusetts Licensing Statutes," while the second comments upon "The Uniform Bank Collection Cotle...
There is quite a little to be said for such a location for the Bank, and no doubt the bankers assembled at Baden took care to say just that. But the reasons for locating the Bank in Switzerland are clear, and it is difficult to see how the balance could be overweighted except in favor of some other country which holds the same neutral position as Switzerland, and at the same time boasts an age-old reputation as a European banking center...
...Bankers who assembled at Baden had to rackon with the jealousy of the Powers which forbade locating the new Bank in any center where it might be suspected of coming immediately under the thumb of one or another central bank. They had to secure some centrally located spot which could focus the European money markets, and one able to recommend itself by its banking facilities. Above all they must have been moved by the strenuous fight made by the Agent General for Reparations to remove from German soil all vestiges of financial "control" and to enable the German nation...
...Germans themselves are short-sighted enough to desire freedom from supervision, even at great cost. A bank which may some day rule the world's finance is a tied-up asset compared with the solid relish of being master in one's own house...
...international bank is no new notion. As long ago as the Genoa Conference in 1922 it was broached. And Switzerland was then urged as the logical location for the proposed bank...