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...silver, to keep it above the world price, speculators took the bit in their teeth and ran the world price up to 81¢ per oz. Mr. Morgenthau, who has little sympathy with speculators, promptly got out of the market. Soon thereafter the price of silver began to coast down hill???down, down, down to last week's level which caused angry silverites to assume that the Treasury had quit buying for good. Secretary Morgenthau's announcement that he had bought more than 25 million ounces of silver in one day was aimed to deflect their wrath...
...WESTWARD STAR?Frank Ernest Hill?...
Austen Chamberlain came home from Geneva. Stanley Baldwin was just home from Aix-les-Bains. But it is doubtful whether either took comfort in his homecoming. For a storm seemed brewing. Unemployment, a coal subsidy, industry running down hill???and then that query from George B. Hunter, the shipbuilder, that query echoed by half a dozen of the country's industrialists: "Are we on the road to ruin?" The question put directly in a public letter to Mr. Baldwin...