Word: gilbert
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wrote able Correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert of the New York Evening Post: "It may well prove to be the turning point...
Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...
...present so-called "Dawes Plan" - which specifies the annual pay ments to be made by Germany without stating how long they are to continue - must soon be definitized by some sort of agreement as to the total sum which Germany is expected to pay. Wrote Mr. Gilbert: "As time goes on and practical experience accumulates, it becomes always clearer that neither the reparations problem nor the other problems depending thereon will be finally solved until Germany has been given a definite task to perform on her own responsibility, without foreign supervision and without the transfer problem." The modest Agent Gilbert...
...standpoint of reparations, continues to be the large foreign loans being made to German states and municipalities. Over 3,950,000,000 gold marks ($940,100,000) of such liabilities are outstanding, and the funds which they represent have produced conditions bordering on "boom prosperity" in some areas. Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency toward spending in excess of resources...
...parts in Germany is an evasion of the duty on imported automobiles." A further escapade by the Deputies, last week, was to pass 333 to 53 a bill increasing the salaries of Government officials which had been explicitly deplored as "extravagant" by the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert (See REPARATIONS REPORT...