Word: german
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Botany 7 Gray Herb. Chemistry 15 Mallinckrodt Large Rm. Class. Philology 30 Sever 17 Economics 7b New Lect. Hall Economics 31 Sever 5 English 2 Harvard 2, 5, 6 English 54 New Fogg Lect. Rm. French 9 Emerson F, J Geography 7 Sever 5 Geology 17b Sever 18 German 1a. sects. 3, 4 New Fogg Lect. Rm. German 2. sects. 2, 3 Sever 11 German 12b Sever 30 Government 8 Harvard 6 Greek B 1 Sever 30 History 12 New Lect. Hall History 56b New Lect. Hall History 57b Andover B Latin 12 Sever 18 Mathematics A II Prof. Birkhoff...
...situation surrounding the raising of the German discount rate that is of primary interest to the world. It is the fact that gold should be drained so readily at the loss of confidence. And it is of as great consequence that the Allied press should seize upon these facts as proof of German bad faith...
...odds the most anxiety-giving phenomenon, however, is the situation of the German budget. That the German government should have to resort to such extreme measures as it has employed during the past week or so, borrowing hundreds of millions of marks at a time from semi-public bodies, is indeed grave. Budgetary difficulties were shown by Professor Allyn Young to be the primary cause of currency instability in 1922-23. The order was budgetary difficulties, currency instability, disordered exchanges. And the German government seems to have assisted in bringing the country to a point where the same merry round...
...matters are not to be improved by saying to Germany, you are guilty. And the Allied representatives, under the leadership of Owen D. Young are pursuing the only salutary course for the good of the world in trying to meet Dr. Schacht, the German spokesman, half way. External war debts, on such a scale as at present, are a new phenomenon in international affairs. Their effect on the national economy is not well understood, and so long as the world sticks to its determination to see them paid, payment must proceed slowly and be safeguarded as far as possible...
...crisis in Germany now would be very damaging to the prosperity not of Germany alone, but to the world. Beside the political eventualities, which are not small, of a socialist or nationalist rising, there are economic repurcussions on a grand scale. American holders of German securities might have to stand large losses, or unnecessary loss of confidence on their part might produce liquidation which would be disastrous to German borrowing. Nations which find Germany a good market for their goods, and secure from Germany many necessary goods in return, would be injured. The problems of Allied debt payment would...