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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary to existing law. . . . The Minister of Economics may punish failure to obey his rulings with imprisonment or fines. There is no limit to the size of the fine...
...convert 25% of U. . S. monetary reserves into silver, the Treasury will have to buy 1,254,000,000 oz. of silver-about one tenth of the world's supply. Secretary Morgenthau has announced that he will "enthusiastically" carry out the purpose of the Act-but no time limit for its execution is set. Against silver purchases the Government at present will issue certificates equal to the price paid for the metal. For its purchases so far the Federal Government has paid an average of 44? per oz.-the open U. S. market price. Federal officials predicted last week...
...matters stand now Great Britain will have built up to the full Treaty limit by 1936 and Japan will have exceeded her proportion of the famed 5-5-3 naval ratio. Despite President Roosevelt's fervid interest in naval shipbuilding as a counterirritant to unemployment, the U. S. will not be up to Treaty par before...
...Relations under Modern Democratic Conditions, which he wrote from long experience as a U. S. diplomat in Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Petrograd, Cape Town. An administrative unit, the School embraces the College Departments of Politics, Economics, History and Modern Languages. It has upped enrollment every year, this year reached the limit of 100 with many an applicant turned away for inadequate scholarship. Its students are campus leaders-Princetonian editors, football men, class presidents. They spend their summers living abroad in native homes, attending government conferences. Each year the School has five "confer-ences on public affairs" of its own. From outside...
...Exchange Act carried a rider liberalizing the Securities Act. While the amendments by no means completely satisfied bankers & businessmen. Eustace Seligman of the great Manhattan law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell declared that Congress had met 80% of the objections. Included were amendments to: 1) reduce the statute of limitation in civil suits from ten to three years; 2) permit a defendant officer, director or underwriter to show that factors other than errors or omissions in the registration statement caused loss; 3) require a plaintiff seeking damages for losses to prove that he relied on the errors or omissions (with certain...