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Hungary. A report on Hungarian financial reconstruction was read by Commissioner General Jeremiah Smith Jr., of Boston. It was a long recital of the success of the League's plan to put Hungary on her feet. Points made by Mr. Smith: currency inflation definitely ended; stock of exchange had risen from one million Swiss francs to 90 million in the space of a few months; budget deficit for year ending June 30 had been covered; adverse trade balance reduced by 40%. Hungary should be self-supporting at the end of two years...
...Hungarian finances are now subject to the control of the League of Nations, which is represented at Budapest by League Commissioner Jeremiah Smith, Jr., of Boston (TIME...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT?1904 Nominator?Frank S. Black* Seconders?Albert Jeremiah Beveridge George A. Knight* H. S. Edwards William O. Bradley* Joseph B. Cotton Harry S. Cummings
...Hungarian Government offered Jeremiah Smith, Jr., 54-year-old Boston lawyer, the post of Commissioner General under the League of Nations' scheme for reconstruction of Hungary. The post had previously been refused by W. P. G. Harding, Boston banker, onetime President of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board, and by Roland Boyden, former American observer on the Reparations Commission. Mr. Smith accompanied the American Peace Mission to Paris in 1918, as adviser on financial questions...
...Amherst. Dr. Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...