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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfairly" reduced U. S. export prices on the World market. In Washington's eyes, the German Economics Minister and Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht is also shady because he does not similarly and frankly reduce the value of all German marks but, instead, has created an intentionally bewildering list of different kinds of marks. Each has a separate value and all are manipulated to Germany's trade advantage by Schacht...
...James W. Gibbons, who conducts 45 sessions a year. President of the League is John J. Sullivan, austere heir to a traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework of organizing the gatherings is divided up among retreat captains, chairman of whom is wiry young William ("Bill") Lennox, business manager of athletics at Penn. Worked up to a great...
...hold the audience of sightseers who went to see the audience of celebrities. Last week, a full-page advertisement in cinema trade papers expressed the thanks of Director Mervyn LeRoy to 133 actors, script clerks, producers, pressagents et al. for "helping me make Anthony Adverse." Thoughtfully included on the list was the name of Author Allen...
...bales of U. S. cotton. It is a poor year in which the firm does not do twice as much business as its nearest private competitor, George H. McFadden & Brother. It has $40,000,000 capital and its credit is good for at least $150,000,000. The list of branches and affiliates stemming from its headquarters in Houston's 16-story Cotton Exchange Building is a complete lesson in world cotton geography. In North America the name Anderson, Clayton & Co. can be found in Montreal, Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas...
...planting at bayonet-point, need their land for food. In Egypt there is a limited amount of Nile water. Nile soil. Only in Brazil and part of the Argentine are there real possibilities of increasing cotton production to the point where the Cotton Belt could be dropped from the list of world cotton exporters. But those areas lack the South's cheap labor. The threat from the Rust cotton picker (TIME, March 23) or improved versions of that machine, is less to employment in the South than in South America where it would overcome the lack of labor...