Word: capitalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago to cooperate for the peace of the world (TIME, June 19, 1933, et ante). Dormant though it has lain, this Pact still exists, is one of the boojums with which Stalin frightens Russians from time to time, pointing to it as a "proof" that there is a Capitalist league against the Soviets. In Paris the present Chautemps Cabinet of the Left was again rocked last week by a fresh severe fall of the franc. With the Paris Exposition drawing to its close, wiseacres expected an end to the "political truce" France has observed all summer for the benefit...
...Economics Minister & Reichsbank President has finally had to tell the German Government that in his opinion the sums being spent in Rearmament and on public works, party buildings and motor speedways throughout Germany must be drastically curtailed if the Reich is to keep up even its present show of Capitalist economy and stable money. The situation seemed to be last week that Herr Hitler remains no economist, and that Colonel Gőring will stop at nothing short of an actual crackup in his resolve to complete Germany's present Four-Year Plan to achieve Rearmament and Autarchy (TIME...
...Cabinet Members from $10,000 to $8,000. Further slashing reduced Ontario Government salaries all along the line, cuts in some cases as much as 50% being carried into the Ontario Liquor Board and Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. This last claims to be "the capitalist world's largest public purveyor of power," serving nearly half a million Ontario families at reputedly "the world's lowest electric rates"-about 9? per kilowatt hour in Ottawa...
...capitalist Canadian circles this was "the Crime of the Century." The next time Premier Hepburn wanted to sell a few Ontario bonds the big Canadian brokerage houses ganged up and boycotted him. Yet, after a few months of fury, the three of the Quebec power companies whose contracts had been torn up quietly made new contracts with Ontario at lower rates. All this left "Mitch" more popular than ever with most Ontario voters and users of electricity. Last week some of these wealthy Canadian interests which had flayed Premier Hepburn for tearing up the power contracts were now arrayed behind...
About that time E. L. Cord's fast-moving career suddenly changed direction. In 1934 he took his second wife and their children to England to escape kidnapping threats. In Wall Street rumors began to fly that Capitalist Cord, who kept his fortune in 1929 by a wise abstinence from the markets, had begun to dabble and get burned. Cord stayed in England for two years. Then last summer he attracted the attention of the Securities & Exchange Commission because of his heavy trading in Checker Cab stock. Last April came the astonishing news that hard-bitten Mr. Cord...