Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March British and Chinese bankers, partly backed by the British Treasury, up a $50,000,000 exchange stabilization fund, pegged the Chinese dollar at 17? A surprisingly stable currency the dollar retained its value despite Japanese currency raids, Chinese military de^at" apanese political pressure on Great Britain. But...
Manhattan society has let its hair down in recent years, no longer counts an opera box the chief symbol of eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation...
As an orator, George Truett has been compared with Bryan, Henry Grady, the great Baptist Evangelist Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Last week, after his 50,000 Baptists had paraded down Atlanta's Peachtree Street, with flags, bands and detachments of troops.* Baptist Truett opened the Alliance congress in the baseball...
Eleven months ago the down-at-heels Boston Transcript was pushed into bankruptcy by its creditors. Trustee Elias Field found a trouble-shooter in a lank, stoop-shouldered Harvardman named Richard Newhall Johnson, who looks like Jimmy Roosevelt (and hates it) and who had devoted himself since graduation to reorganizing...
The Week, edited by a tall, personable Oxonian, Claude Cockburn (pronounced koburn), who quit as U. S. correspondent for the London Times because he could not stomach its extreme Rightist policy. Editor Cockburn holds down a regular job with the Daily Worker (under the name of Frank Pitcairn), grinds out...