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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France, continued M. Roz, has been disappointed in the unanimity she hoped to find among her allies. She bears the United States no grudge but feels that British foreign policy has been directed more toward the reestablishment of trade than to the enforcement of reparations for the 100 billion Frances of damage caused...
Meantime the Postal Service continues to grow. Back in the days of the stage coach and "real romance" a couple of mail sacks would bring a week's delivery to Chicago or Louisville. Today a million and a half letters are mailed every hour and the government sells fourteen billion stamps a year...
...America is planning to step in and referee the matter. A loan of a billion and a half dollars to help the struggling mark get on sol'd land is being contemplated. But France pooh-poohs our offers of assistance; she knows that Germany doesn't need it. Only a general German reversal of attitude will clear the skies. Premier Cuno, an honorable man apparently, has foresworn the policy of his predecessors. Said he a week ago: "There is no central force within economic circles strong enough to take the leadership out of the hands of the government under...
...prevent as well as punish this fraudulent promotion. Urged on by men like Governor Morse of the First District Federal Reserve Bank and startled by the statement of the Senate Committee on Reconstruction that the annual losses through worthless schemes can be conservatively estimated at more than a billion dollars a year, bankers established the Better Business Bureau last summer. Working through branches located all over the United States, this bureau has already exposed a number of "blind pools" which have absorbed the savings of thousands of ignorant and gullible persons. A product of the war but no longer promoted...
Profound believers in Santa Claus may possibly attribute Bonar Law's surprising generosity to the approach of Christmas. His real reasons, however, are certainly not altruistic. First of all the offer is accompanied by the hitch that France content herself with a reparation of only fifteen to twenty billion marks, a decided fall from per present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey...