Word: john
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...Italy and Japan have found a way to stop this drain. But they did so by violating capitalism's unwritten Magna Charta: That money must have a right to go wherever it can make profits and avoid losses. In Britain, this right has now been suspended by Sir John Simon's dictum: "The export of capital . . . would be deleterious to the national interest...
Since January, Sir John has been planning to float a rearmament loan of $1,500,000,000-three times as much as the British have spent buying U. S. securities since 1935. For some time he has been hinting that he could not raise all this money so long as Englishmen remained free to put their investment cash into U. S. securities. Meanwhile, since 1935, Englishmen, fearful of war, had shipped $500,000,000 to the U. S., now have about $1,000,000,000 invested in marketable U. S. securities. Silent pressure has gradually reduced the flow, since first...
Died. Harold Irving Pratt, 62, financier whose father organized the original Standard Oil Co. with the original John D. Rockefeller; of pneumonia; in Glen Cove...
Died. Jonathan Edmund Browning, 80, famed gunsmith; in New Haven, Conn. Father Jonathan Browning was an Iowa gunsmith, who founded Browning Arms Co. in Ogden, Utah (1851). Brother John invented many firearms. Jonathan Edmund constructed the models...
...Club is an international association of writers. Its members include most of the world's top poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists. First international president was John Galsworthy. President now is Jules Romains. Founded 18 years ago in England, P. E. N. has spent 17 years of its decorous, softspoken, ineffectual existence passing futile resolutions and trying to make next year's meeting better than the last. Nations might rise or fall, populations perish, wars rage, but P. E. N. merely raised its penciled eyebrows, insisted that the writer's business is to write and that writing...