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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With world finances teetering topsy-turvy, directors of the Bank for International Settlements met in Basle last week, elected a new president, and by their election broke their own charter. In 1930 when the B. I. S. was set up to facilitate German Reparations payments (TIME, March 25, 1929, et seq.) it was decided that its secondary purpose was to uphold and spread the gold standard throughout the world. In its charter it was expressly provided that no central bank of a country not on the gold standard should be admitted to membership...
...period a female Porra was set up among husky prostitutes who attacked the wives and daughters of anti-Machadoans on the streets, ripping their clothes off with razor blades. Violence begets violence. In 1931 after the collapse of ex-President Menocal's abortive revolution (TIME. Aug. 17. 1931 et seq.) the A. B. C. was established to murder and bomb the Porra and other Machado henchmen. Strange as it seems careful observers believe that the A. B. C. may be the savior of Cuba. It, of all the opposition groups, has a program that consists of more than fighting...
Starr Faithfull. a sexually distraught, neurotic young woman whose death excited the nation (TIME. June 29. 1931, et seq.). died by drowning after she had been drugged with luminal and thrown from a boat, declared Dr. Gettler. A difference of saltiness between the bloods in the right and left cavities of her heart, ''the only positive test of death by submersion." showed that the young woman had actually died in that manner. Dr. Gettler established the blood-saltiness test for drowning by drowning dogs in salt and fresh waters. He found that, in drowning, water always gets into...
...year: an exposé of discreditable phases of veterans' relief by Reporter Talcott Powell; a series on the real estate bond racket by Reporters Joseph Lilly & Fred Woltman; an expose of the lottery schemes of the Eagles and Moose lodges which led to Federal prosecution (TIME. Aug. 29 et seq.) by Reporter Winston Murrill; urging New York City voters to write-in the name of upstanding Joseph V. McKee for Mayor, after Tammany had rejected his candidacy. The McKee campaign resulted in 242,026 write-in votes. It was directed personally by Publisher Howard and Editor Lee Wood. Other...
Died. Regino Truffin, 29, elder son of Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffin Walsh; of a liver ailment; in Marianao, Cuba. His long illness delayed for more than a year the marriage of his mother to Montana's late Senator Thomas James Walsh (TIME, March 6, et...