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...political prestige, will have as his Undersecretary and mentor famed Gottfried Feder, the "Nazi Ideologist," inventor of the Party's distinction between two kinds of capital: raffendes or "grasping loan capital" and schaffendes or "creative industrial capital." In practice this distinction means that a Jewish lender or an industrialist who does not contribute to Nazi funds is liable to be denounced as a Shylock with raffendes Kapital while non-Jews and regular contributors-to-the-party are left unmolested with their schaffendes wealth. Last week Germany's tycoons, whose business is increasingly regulated by the Ministry of Economics...
...fund untouched for further exchange maneuvers. Both French and British officials loudly insisted that the idea of using this loan in unified action against the dollar was furthest from their thoughts, but the Journal des Débats suddenly realized that if such action were taken, Britain, as the lender, might soon be cracking the whip over France...
...Editor Shively's point: "As everyone knows, the modern banker is not the mere money lender and interest snatcher of days gone by. The Wall Street bank, in particular, is as much an industrial institution as it is a bank ... a vast social enterprise as well. . . . National City must have at its head a man who thoroughly understands industrial problems...
...farm mortgages attended by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, two R. F. C. directors and many an insurance man and joint stock land bank official. Upshot of much talk was that all hands would be as lenient as possible on farm foreclosures, that R. F. C. would be a liberal lender to private institutions which refrain from putting the screws on the "honest farmer who tries to pay his debts...
...elements of the case easily lent themselves to burlesque. Mrs. Pollak, who wore her long bobbed hair curled at the ends Garbo-wise, had been married three years to Joseph Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...