Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, has raised wages, reduced working hours, increased Government insurance, liberalized pensions, has raised taxes and has scared capital away. Moreover, world wool prices suddenly dropped. New Zealand found herself exporting only a few million dollars worth of goods more than she was importing, so that debt services in London were harder than ever to meet. The country's sterling reserves dwindled from $143,085,000 to $34,035,000. On top of this, an $85,000,000 loan is to mature in London next year. To save New Zealand's currency, early last winter Prime Minister Savage...
Against such a background neither Mr. Nash nor his Labor Government was expected to get much sympathy from London's big financiers, who are far more interested in interest payments than in social experiments. The liberal British weekly New Statesman and Nation likened Mr. Nash in the City (London's Wall Street) to Daniel in the lions' den, recalled how badly both the British Labor Government of 1929-31 and the French Popular Front Government of 1936-38 had fared at the hands of the big bankers. There were predictions that before Mr. Nash could renew...
...Minister Nash, from the beginning of his London stay, showed he had uncommonly winning ways even with hard-boiled bankers. He took time off to explain his social and economic theories not only in the London Daily Herald, the Labor Party newsorgan where he could expect a sympathetic audience, but also in the Financial News, a City newspaper which has often criticized his policies...
Fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1902, William Woodward was introduced to racing at Ascot and Newmarket while working in London as secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph Choate. In 1910, on the death of his uncle, Banker James T. Woodward, young Bill inherited not only controlling interest in Manhattan's Hanover National Bank, but also the famed Belair Stud, a 3,000-acre farm at Collington, Prince Georges County, Md., close by the spot where his paternal ancestors first settled...
...Swiss chemist, Frederick Norbert Wagner contracted travelers' itch "while my shirtwaist and trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...