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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with open court; and pool on Diamond Head; 2) A copy of a Japanese home which was brought overseas piece by piece, including rocks and moss for decoration, at Waikiki; 3) A mountain home high up on the Punchbowl; 4) A cottage at Pearl Harbor, for sailing; 5) A million-dollar ranch for fine; horses and huge houseparties. So open-handed...
Debt. Most important problem of the week was France's debt to the U. S. A. matter of 400 million dollars is owed by France for surplus war materials, due on August 1 unless France should in the meantime ratify the Mellon-Berenger agreement for funding the whole French debt ($4,025,000,000). The French deputies, anxious to avoid ratifying any debt agreement at all as long as possible, ingenuously asked Prime Minister Raymond Poincare to request more time from Washington. Dutifully M. Poincare instructed Ambassador Paul Claudel to interview Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. Dutifully Ambassador...
...economist Rudolf Martin's financial compendium, just published in Berlin, that Wilhelm of Doorn is still the richest of all Germans, credited with $152,000,000 in capital holdings. This does not mean that he has much money to spend. Wilhelm Hohenzollern's wealth consists of: A million and a half acres of land (entailed) worth $120,000,000 Castles, palaces, gardens, worth 20,000,000 Furniture, jewels, works of art, worth 4,000,000 Cash settlement from the German government for confiscated property...
...this money produces an income of only $500,000 a year. The estates are entailed, they cannot be sold. The palaces and jewels produce no income. When income taxes on the cash fund and land taxes on the million acres are paid, a half-million dollars is all that is left. Most important of all this half-million belongs to the ex-Kaiser only as head of the House of Hohenzollern. There are 49 members dependent on the fund, none of whom is willing to give up his share. That leaves some $10,000 per annum for each of them...
...present the Post's circulation is half again as large as Liberty's, some three million copies to two. In "estimating" the future, the Liberty cousins showed the Post creeping hesitantly to about three millions while Liberty reached that figure in steady upward dashes. The Post's career after the memorable Christmas of 1934 was shown continuing vaguely off the side of the graph with about four million circulation at the end of 1937. Liberty, however, was shown dashing onward and upward with such verve that it went quite out of sight at the top of the graph...