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...when he makes his periodic Delphic statements about the financial system. But the Federal Reserve chairman set a new whazzat? standard recently when he suggested that the millions of homeowners who proudly hold a fixed-rate mortgage--roughly 80% of all those with a mortgage--are committing a financial blun-der that may cost them thousands of dollars a year...
Last week one faux pas was made and another was narrowly averted. The blun der: BBC, despite instructions for strict secrecy, announced that on July 1 Sir Stafford had had a three-hour talk with Joseph Stalin. The narrow escape: Be cause the mails are impossibly slow, Sir Stafford corresponds by cable with his wife in London. Recently he told her he had bought an Airedale named Joe. Last week, Lady Cripps told friends, she wrote a cable to her husband, ended it with "Greetings to Joe," saw her blunder, struck out the last word, substituted "Airedale...
...Dario Clemente Berizzi, Peter Thacher Brooks, John Leouidas Calvocoressi. William Jackson Clothier, Albert Damon. Rume Dow, Herbert Lawrence Furse, John Rays Gardiner, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr., Francis Keppel, Franklin Monroe Ludden, Arthur Oakes, Ralph Linder Pope, Jr., George French Roberts, Francis Skiddy von Stade. Jr., Albert Stickney Jr., Donald Blun Straus, and Robert Taft Whitman...
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