Word: europeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Principally as a convenience to traveling subscribers, 4,000 copies of TIME are rushed to Europe each week, reaching British and usually French newsstands while the same issue is still on sale in New York City. In England, where the office of the European distributor is located, the price is everywhere 9d. (18?). On the Continent a few shopkeepers charge what they can get, unfortunately are not subject to TIME'S regulation. European readers who wish may have TIME sent to them direct from the Circulation Office at 350 East 22nd Street, Chicago, Ill. for $7 a year...
...years of peace behind it. In a world of Dictators v. Democracies, Denmark this week, in the 25th year of its Christian era, offered a study in sane, happy nationalism that was well expressed in a birthday book published for the occasion.* With the Oslo group of northern European powers beginning to loom as a rallying point for world democracy. King Christian's quiet Silver Jubilee was significant by its very insignificance...
...Edward Dodd wrote: ''There are individuals of great wealth [in the U. S.] who wish a dictatorship and are ready to help a Huey Long. There are politicians, some in the Senate, I have heard, who think that they may come into power like that of the European dictators. . . . One man, I have been told by personal friends, who owns nearly a billion dollars, is ready to support such a program and, of course, control...
Originally set up to handle German Reparations, the B.I.S. is now in somewhat the same category as the League of Nations—a noble relic. It makes a little money out of various banking operations, including the settlement of international postal balances, serves as a sounding board for collective European banking thought, issues astonishingly good reports, largely written by its Swedish economic adviser, Per Jacobsson. In last week's report Per Jacobsson was disturbed not only by gold but by armaments...
...price of gold would help cope with the serious problems resulting from overabundant production." Obvious though this solution for gold overproduction may seem, the chief objection, aside from those offered by interested people like General Smuts, is that tinkering with the price of gold is tinkering with currency. The European bankers, well aware that New Deal has been known to tinker with its currency, departed from Basle last week unconvinced that Washington's denials could be taken at face value...