Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Litvinov. In London last week correspondents noticed that Comrade Litvinov, once accustomed to being snubbed by Statesman Stimson at Geneva, now hobnobs in friendly fashion with Snubber Stimson's successor, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. In the lobbying skirmish fortnight ago to get Vice Chief U. S. Delegate Cox elected Chairman of the Conference Monetary Committee (TIME, June 26), Comrade Litvinov battled from the first for Mr. Cox, battled again for the tariff proposal made last week by Mr. Hull (see p. 17). Even the British Government, Tory-dominated and leery of Moscow, began to court Comrade Litvinov. Expelled...
...Cox, asked by a correspondent whether the dollar was being pegged at $4 to the pound, replied "That guess would shoot very close to the mark...
Shortly after Le Gouverneur was elected Monetary Chairman unanimously, even M. Bonnet voting for him. Said Chairman Cox: "I have always favored a sound monetary policy. I have had important conversations with Finance Minister Bonnet which have made me certain there is no essential divergence of our views in regard to restoring financial and monetary order in the world...
Since M. Bonnet and French Premier Edouard Daladier are the stiffest of gold standard twins, Wall Street understood Chairman Cox to mean that President Roosevelt had definitely decided not to resort to inflation, at least during the Conference. Promptly, on the theory that dollars, if sound, are not a bad investment, Wall Street sold stocks & commodities, caused their prices to decline. Alarmed, Secretary of the Treasury Woodin declared in Washington that the U. S. Delegation could not have agreed in London to even tentative dollar stabilization. This restored uncertainty-a bull point in WalI Street-and prices firmed...
Showers burst on Windsor a half hour before the party, cleared up just in time for Mrs. Cordell Hull. Mrs. Cox and other U. S. Delegation wives to enter the Palace gardens without getting soaked. They and their husbands were presented to King George and Queen Mary under the great scarlet and gold durbar tent which is always dry. "The King and Queen were wonderful!" cried the wife of Canadian-born U. S. Senator Couzens, emerging from the tent. ''They are real people...