Word: jungly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guido Jung, the white-mustached Italian Finance Minister who visited the White House before he went to the Conference, attacked President Roosevelt's ideas of "managed currency" and a "commodity dollar" last week with a fierceness which suggested that he was speaking on direct orders from Il Duce...
...managed currency is inconceivable as affording an international monetary standard," cried Signer Jung. "As for monetary systems based on price indices and other elastic measures this is our opinion: no unit of measurement for the productive efforts of nations and for the coordination of the various productive activities within each nation can be based on such quicksands...
...Fortunately." concluded Signer Jung, "there now seems to be a trend toward world recovery through the action of natural forces...
...only rows of empty seats and three charwomen dusting them off. "But where is the Conference?" she cried. "Surely there is more to see than this!" Next day, as the Conference quietly disintegrated rather than adjourned, there was even less to see. White-mustached Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung had hopped into a plane and gone back to Rome. Knife-featured French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet had caught a Channel boat for Paris, remarking politely not upon the fact that the Conference statesmen had almost completely disagreed, but instead that, "we have achieved a perfect comprehension of each others...
...went to Washington!" cried Italian Finance Minister Guido Jung. "I talked to President Roosevelt a few weeks ago. He said the stabilization of currencies was one of the first essentials of this Conference. Now he seems to brush all that aside. I cannot understand...