Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assembled were such Inner Circlers as Tommy Corcoran, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, SEComrnissioner Edward ("Big Ed") Eicher, Federal Works Administrator John Carmody, Ernest Lindley, journalist, who helps write the McNutt speeches. Two men arranged the dinner: Economist David Cushman Coyle, Federal Security Counsel Fowler Harper, onetime dean of McNutt's Alma Mater, Indiana Law School...
...chain of department stores in Mexico and been successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. As one of the few French statesmen the British really understand and admire and trust, he was most welcome. Since Great Britain and France are now, allied in a war whose severest engagements have been...
...another European politico, believes that international economic collaboration, especially between Britain and France, is the only possible basis for a lasting peace when World War II is over. But Finance Minister Reynaud had come to talk about fighting the war before liquidating it, and in his conversations with Sir John Simon he got what he wanted...
...having closest economic collaboration from Britain and the support of her banking system and gold reserve was that France has called to the colors five men to Britain's one. While she holds the Maginot Line, Britain should protect the inner front. M. Reynaud and Sir John also agreed that just because there is a war going on-especially a standstill war where the real fighting is economic, by blockade and the capture of Germany's export markets-is no reason why business and commerce should not go ahead in both countries as normally as possible. Together they...
While France's Paul Reynaud and Britain's Sir John Simon put their heads together to strengthen the external economy of the Allies (see above), one of Britain's leading economists advanced a notable plan to strengthen Britain's internal economy, to help pay for the war while it is being fought, to help smooth the economic bumps which must be felt when it is over. Author was "The Stinger in the Triple Bromide"-Economist John Maynard Keynes, who, as a member of the Economic Advisory Council and secretary of the Royal Economic Society, frequently stimulates...