Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the dollar (TIME. July 24). Quietly Mr. Chamberlain took offices across the way from the World Conference, placed himself at the disposal of dominion delegates and proceeded to argue them down. The final session lasted 90 minutes, ended in an Empire Declaration pledging the Mother Country, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa to strive for: 1) A further rise in Empire wholesale prices to be stimulated by Empire Government policies of "low rates of interest and an abundance of short-term money . . . within the limits of sound finance" and with inflation "depreciated...
Subject to ratification by the eight governments concerned, the agreement would bind "India, China and Spain as holders of large stocks of silver and . . . Australia, Canada, the United States, Mexico and Peru as the principal producers of silver" not to dump the white metal on the world market for the next four years. Sales of surplus silver by the holding nations would be reduced to about the same extent that the producers agree to withhold silver from the world market by purchasing it for their treasury reserves of coin or bullion...
Each capitalist group would be a chartered company, like the famed East India Co. which wrung so much wealth from Indian natives between the reigns of Charles II and William IV. To make the proposition more attractive Premier Lyons is willing to let the half-million square miles on hundred-year leases exempting the chartered companies from Australian duties, land taxes and income tax for that period...
Died. Sir Harry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, Viscount Burnham, 70, retired owner-publisher of the London Daily Telegraph, last individual proprietor of a London daily; of heart disease; in London. He served on the Simon Commission in India, stoutly opposed Indian autonomy. He presided over the International Labor Conference (Geneva, 1921, 1922, 1926); was chairman of the committee which rebuilt the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. His newspaper, handed down through three generations from his grandfather Joseph Moses Levy, carried more U. S. news, unbiased and friendly, than any other British sheet...
...Zlin working over a big shoe contract he hoped to close in Switzerland. The day dawned murky, with fog blotting out tall Bat'a chimneys. Twice the pilot of the Bat'a private plane, an ace pilot who had flown Thomas Bat'a successfully around India and back, refused to take off for Switzerland. Finally the First Working Partner climbed up beside his ace, ordered, "We must start!" The engine roared. Thundering across the perfectly smooth Bat'a airfield the plane began to lift, vanished into the fog and then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot...