Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debt program. To U. S. investors, large and small, have been sold some $15,000,000,000 in foreign securities which have depreciated in value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them all on the public? What political dickering was behind each issue? How much did worthless foreign bonds have to do with bank failures? The Senate Finance Committee prepared answer these questions by summoning ranking officers of the following big banking houses...
...lamentation last week was famed British Economist Sir George Paish, Governor of the London School of Economics, member of the British financial mission to the U. S. in 1914. Like U. S. Economist Roger Ward Babson who foretold the 1929 Wall Street crash, Sir George is respectfully heeded in Wall Street because in November 1914 he said: "During the War the United States will have great prosperity. Your misfortunes will come later...
...Professor Lamb was a lieutenant colonel in the research division of the Chemical Warfare Service, U. S. A., in charge of defense chemical research. He served on the United States Fixed Nitrogen Mission in 1919, and from 1919 to 1921 was director of the Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory in Washington...
...friends persuaded him to eat more he expiated by fasting. His charities were even more secret than his pious practices. He managed to subsist on six shillings ($1.50) a week before the War, ten shillings after. The rest of his small wages went to the poor, to a Chinese mission and to the training of priests. Once he told his sister he had "finished three priests and was at the fourth" (cost: $150 a year...
...Berlin arrived a Soviet trade mission last week and went to work with German Minister of Economics Hermann Warm-bold. The Russians were reported offering $23,000,000 of new orders, but contingent upon either: 1) further German credit extension; or 2) some lowering of German tariff barriers to permit an increase of Russian sales to Germany, thus bringing the unfavorable Red trade balance back under control...