Word: gulden
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...House of Rothschild (Twentieth Century) begins with old Mayer Amschel Rothschild (George Arliss, in whiskers and skullcap) as a wheedling Frankfort moneybroker. The loss of a few gulden in a messenger robbery sets him yowling like an alley cat. When the tax-collector comes down Jew Street, stingy old Rothschild whisks his money bags into the cellar, gives each of his children a crust to gnaw, pops the roastbeef into a garbage box. and talks the collector into taking a bribe. As shrewd as he is stingy, Mayer Amschel Rothschild gets a good idea on his death bed. He tells...
...members of the Netherlands Society for Industry and Commerce, opened at their meeting in Rotterdam last week a letter as explosive as two sticks of dynamite. Signed by Holland's world potent petrol tycoon, Sir Henri Deterding, it urged the Netherlands to reduce the gold content of the gulden, "in order to help trade...
Almost without debate, the shocked Dutch industrialists voted abhorrence of Sir Henri's "inflationist proposal" but news of it leaked into the Press. Instantly world foreign exchange prices rocked. The gulden tumbled nearly two cents and the French franc took a fractional dip. Swiss francs held "stable as the Alps" as Dutchmen cursed Sir Henri for the first bad gulden break since it was stabilized...
Major Deeds crying loudest to be done by the Conference are four: 1) Interstabilization of the gyrating dollar and wobbling pound with each other and with gold standard currencies such as the French franc, Dutch gulden, Swiss franc. Last week the dollar plunged down to a new low-for-all-time against gulden and Swiss francs, tobogganed to a value of about 81.8? against French francs. This meant that the British Treasury, which is trying to keep sterling low for competitive trade purposes, saw the pound skyrocket within a week from $4.01 to $4.20, a new high since England went...
...bankers might sympathize, might aid * but Greeks, Turks, Brazilians and such put John Bull's pound pudding to the proof. Greece, which has pegged her drachma to the British pound for years, switched last week, pegged it to the dollar. Small Danzig did likewise with her gulden. Great Brazil, whose 20 United States are larger than the 48 U. S. states, began at once to collect certain taxes on a dollar basis, despite the fact that by law of 1926 Brazil's milreis is pegged to the British pound. In Rio, bankers close to President Getulio Vargas rumored...