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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seymour Parker Gilbert. Agent General of the Reparations Commission in Germany, he has been, in effect, the house physician for European money matters. Collecting from Germany, disbursing to the Allies, he has watched Germany's financial temperature and heartbeat for three years, advising here, criticising there, until he considered his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Dollar Doctors | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

This point was the very core of the U. S. proposals presented in Geneva a fortnight ago by Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson, personal friend and confidential representative of Mr. Hoover. At the earliest opportunity last week Comrade Litvinov rose and moved a resolution closely paraphrasing Mr. Gibson's speech. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Battling for Reduction | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

* B. & O. access to New York depends upon a trackage agreement with Reading Railroad. A minority Reading stockholder, the B. & O. has applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for control of the road.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: 40 Years | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Last week the U. S. press had the distinction of having the Federal Trade Commission inquire into its affairs in a big way. The Commission summoned Archibald Robertson Graustein, president of International Power & Paper Co., which lately, through its subsidiary. International Paper Co., acquired stock in the Boston Herald and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vertical Combination | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald-Journal, Columbia (S. C.) Record and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: $855,000 of notes of the owners, secured by all the stock of these papers. In spite of the earnest Graustein statements about the Graustein press, almost all the rest of the press flayed the Graustein policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vertical Combination | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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