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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republicans whose vote change caused the manganese rate change. His explanation: "The White House wanted it." Even high-tariff Chairman Reed Smoot, incensed at his committee's inconsistency, ironically observed that the market value of U. S. Steel stock had increased "only a hundred million dollars" after the last fortnight's slump precipitated by an increase of the Federal Reserve's rediscount rate...
...Reparations-called "sponge cake" by homely Yorkshireman Snowden-among the Creditor Powers (Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, etc.). Fortnight ago Chancellor Snowden rocked the fiscal and diplomatic worlds by demanding for Britain "MORE SPONGE CAKE!" But only last week was it possible to state that he wanted precisely 45 million marks more cake ($10,800,000) every year, until Germany has fully paid up her reparations. Since the Young Plan as originally drafted would allot 409 million marks annually to Great Britain, the Chancellor's demand would bring her share up to 454 million marks ($108,960,000). That...
...business principles at Harvard, the course of modern Chinese history would have run in a profoundly different rut. In 1922 the Nationalists, who have since conquered all China, were an insignificant group of zealots dominating only the region of Canton. On an income from local taxes of only one million dollars per month they could not finance a China-conquering expedition. Two years later young T. V. Soong was called to the Nationalist Finance Ministry...
Without increasing taxes Banker Soong magically increased the Canton tax yield from one to ten million dollars per month. He has said that he did it by cutting down graft, by rigid Harvard budgeting. On ten million dollars per month the Nationalists launched their successful war of conquest, financed additionally for a time by grants from Soviet Russia, a state with which they soon quarreled, are still quarreling...
...Publisher: We have ten million cash-spending customers coming into our stores every weekday in the year. All of them like to read. Would you care to make them the market for your magazines, with no competing publications on our stands...