Word: contents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON is asked to state that the headline over an interview with Dr. Wolfgang R. Kraus in the issue of Wednesday, November 1, did not accurately represent the content of the interview...
...Chase. In 1930 Mr. Wiggin put an end to that by merging the Chase with Equitable Trust in which the Rockefellers were heavy stockholders. Thereafter Mr. Wiggin was no longer the Chase's biggest stockholder*-that title had passed to John D. Rockefeller Jr.-but the Rockefellers were content to leave him in command. At that time Mr. Wiggin ruled a bigger bank than any American before or since: a bank with $148,000,000 each of capital and surplus, with over $2,000,000,000 in deposits. Days of trouble followed. Some of Mr. Wiggin's banking...
...Dorothy Parker-Viking ($2.25). Dorothy Parker has no compunction about breaking a butterfly upon a wheel. In fact it is the best thing she does, and her exhibitions in this kind are greeted with applause and cries for more. Like other first-rate comedians, however, she cannot always be content to raise a laugh. Though she cannot refrain from tearing her butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous...
...whether we have the commodity standard or not, ultimately, the President had to have an alternative to his refusal to stabilize now or fix the gold content. He had to meet the pressure of the inflationists. He had to continue to try to persuade the other governments of the world to try the commodity standard experiment. So inasmuch as he came to believe there couldn't be any stabilization now anyway, there seemed no harm in an academic espousal of the commodity standard...
...Roosevelt's refusal to make the decision about gold content at this time will unquestionably be found upon reflection to have been a wise move. Now entirely apart from this phase of his policy, there will be criticism of what he refers to as a managed currency and issue will be taken with him as to whether it is sound ever to try to fix the value of the dollar by changing its gold content every now and then to conform to price changes. This theory, which is sponsored by Professor Irving Fisher of Yale...