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...afternoon of June 11, the Bank for International Settlements held its 15th annual general meeting in the austere board room of its building in Basel, Switzerland. In other years, such famed international bankers as Germany's Hjalmar Schacht and Walter Funk, Britain's Montague Norman and Sir Otto Niemeyer, Italy's Dottore Raffaele Pilotti, Japan's Hisaakira Kano, and the U.S.'s Thomas McKittrick had met around the huge, oval table. But this year may be B.I.S.'s last: several nations would like to have it dissolved, and even whisper that there would...
...Walter Funk, president of the Reichsbank, was found in the midst of a covey of Japanese embassy personnel, which also included Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima...
Haines is counting heavily on his stern powerhouse to deliver the goods tomorrow. Stroke John Chandler, who moved up from the J.V.'s, and Captain Dick Hunneman, veteran of several Harvard Varsities, supported at 6 by Bob Funk-houser, form a formidable combination. Bowman Bill Stiles, also a Varsity veteran, Ken McAfee at 5, John Kettele at 2, and cox Dan Paul are all left from last spring's Varsity...
...picture-laden, 28-page, magazine-like supplement distributed in 15 cities. It is dissociated from other Field publications, except that Chicago's Sun is a customer. Parade is unusual in two respects: 1) Editor Ross Art Lasley and his top associates (Boyd Brodhead and Harold H. Funk) have had no other newspaper or magazine experience; 2) the gravure-printed supplement gets an extreme degree of editing by its readers...
Money. Many Germans worry about inflation. Reich Minister of Economics Walther Funk recently tried to reassure an assembly of big shots at the Reichsbank: Never mind the rising tide of bank notes; the money situation is under control. But many people are buying whatever fixed values they can put their hands on (favorite investment: rare stamps, because they can be easily hidden and transported...