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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Alvan Macauley (Packard), president of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce: "We are very grateful to the President and to General Johnson...
...from God the Almighty." The Head of State will be advised by four councils (political, ecclesiastical & educational, commercial, provincial). He, his Chancellor and Cabinet will initiate all legislation, allow or refuse plebiscites, change the Constitution at will; and he may dismiss his Chancellor and Cabinet at will. A Federal Chamber made up of members of the four councils will accept or reject his laws, without comment. The Head of State will control all universities and schools, newspapers, theatres and broadcasting stations. He will maintain the Catholic Church as the privileged and established church...
Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce a little cold turkey with their banquet chicken. After a long, oft-told analysis of Germany's uncomfortable position in international finance, he slipped out two new threats. Much of Germany's commercial borrowings, he said, have gone not into German business, but directly to pay reparations. "The entire conglomeration of political obligations," he declared, "weighs like a mountain on international trade." On the theory that all Germany's outstanding debts are political, President Schacht concluded that "an attempt must be made to reach an agreement," i. e. to cancel...
...country. The walls of the quiet room were crowded with mementoes of the great days before 1918. Potsdam was only 16 years and 350 mi. away. Listening to their father's proud boasts, the sons felt 16 years younger but they looked doubtful. Last week Belgium's Chamber of Deputies raised King Leopold's civil list allowance from 8.000,000 francs ($375.000) to 12.000.000 francs ($560.000) per year. To his father's relict. Queen Mother Elisabeth, the deputies voted 2,000,000 francs...
Washington, March 25--Sixteen internationally-known bankers and industrialists appealed to all the governments tonight, through the International Chamber of Commerce, to stabilize currencies. The appeal came as rumors grew that France and Switzerland might have to abandon the gold standard...