Word: guilders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury since 1934. And there was a fresh cry for spending the so-called "gold profit," now safely locked up in the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund. Meantime the 59? dollar sank for three weeks straight in international exchange. Last week both the French franc and Dutch guilder were near the gold export point. Metal shipments to Europe were expected to start shortly, reversing a flow which, with one minor interruption, has gone on since the dollar was devalued just two years ago last week...
...biblical representations. Instead of following the old tradition of showing a pale saint gazing lifelessly towards Heaven, he has chosen subjects such as "Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels," "Christ Driving Out Money Changers from the Temple," and "Christ Healing the Sick." The last is also known as the "Hundred Guilder Print" because it sold soon for one hundred guilders, and was the first of his works to bring success to his apparently unrewarded life...
...that they are sane, it was the supreme irony last week that Japan's determined and successful filching is based, at its present stage, on Tokyo's "insane" decision to make the yen worth only 40% of what it used to be worth in gold, while the guilder is still at full, sane value. Should Dutchmen Dance? Cold figures reveal that in 1928 England supplied 29% of all textiles bought by Queen Wilhelmina's dusky Indonesian subjects in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Soemba, Bali, Flores, Timor, Banka, Billiton, New Guinea, Madura, Lombok, the Riouw Lingga and Molukken...
...Even better, many Indonesians are now figuring out for themselves, would be self-rule. They babble ineffectually about "Indonesia for the Indonesians!" But native discontent is grim, real, threatening, and it springs from the impossibility of selling Indonesia's products in sufficient volume on the World market at guilder prices...
...guilder should go the way of the yen, pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program...