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...among them chemicals, electronic equipment and industrial machinery. The consequence, Administration leaders predict, would be higher prices, lower profits and fewer jobs at home, as well as shrinking markets for U.S. goods abroad. "To incite trade war would be a fool's game," says Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, "since the U.S. would be bound to end up as a loser...
...repeating the French demands with embellishments. As the conference opened, club-wielding police broke up a demonstration against the Viet Nam war by 150 young Swedes, some of them carrying signs reading SUPPORT FOR THE DOLLAR IS SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE and NO CREDITS TO U.S. MURDERERS. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, chief U.S. delegate, took a back entrance to avoid the melee...
...pressing for debate on the monetary system as a whole, came out formally for an increase in the official price of gold. A long silence ensued. Finally, German Economics Minister Karl Schiller registered his disagreement. Italy's Emilio Colombo sided with the Germans. The U.S.'s Fowler suggested that the real business of the meeting was the SDRs and asked that the group move briskly along in that area...
...need to know about them. So we have dealt with them in major stories through the years, including such cover stories as those on Federal Reserve Chau-man William McChesney Martin (Sept. 10, 1956), Treasury Secretaries Robert Anderson (Nov. 23, 1959), C. Douglas Dillon (Aug. 18, 1961), and Henry Fowler (Sept...
...return, L.BJ. wants higher taxes. The Administration, since summer, has asked for a 10% surtax on incomes in order to ease inflation. To convince Congress that the surtax is urgent, Fowler and Martin spent much of last week on Capitol Hill. Fowler described the surtax as a "war tax," said that the Administration was even willing to raise taxes back to their levels before the 1964 reduction. The move would real ize $22 billion, rather than a previously estimated $10 billion...