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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact there has been a decided expansion. Ten of these general commodities, of the type indicated, were sold to Europe in 1913 to the total of some $72,000,000 worth. Last year the value was $293,000,000--an increase in sixteen years of more than 300 per cent. Even though a part (perhaps 60 per cent) is chargeable to price increases, there is obviously a greater increased volume in this traffic; and it shows nosign whatsoever of abatement. The fact is that the currents of commerce are largely diverted, speeded up or retarded, by forces that have very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Partisanship Cannot Injure Mutual Interests of Great Continents Declares Klein | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

...this is the first crisis in what may be termed normal conditions that the Federal Reserve System has experienced-not that anyone doubts its ability to extend any or all accomodation that may be needed. Its reserve ratio the past year or more has been between 70 or 75 per cent some 30 per cent above the legal minimum. Indeed, this unprecedented gold revenue may be said to have indirectly been behind the bull market, since the public knew there were far greater supplies of credit available in the country than they would ever need, and that the high discount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKING STOCK | 11/1/1929 | See Source »

From a total of 843 new Freshmen admitted to Harvard College this fall, 170 are exempt from the requirements of English A-1 by virtue of having received a grade of 75 per cent or better in the English College Board entrance examination, or by gaining special permission from the department to take a more advanced course of instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXEMPTION FROM ENGLISH A-1 TOTALS 170 FIRST-YEAR MEN | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...against Mr. Koch was the man who had given him his Com-mission job-William Burgess of Pennsylvania, onetime (1921-1925) Tariff Commissioner, now vice-president of U. S Potters Association. Lobbyist Burgess, now 72, denied he was a lobbyist, but explained that the potters paid him $7,500 per year to represent them in Washington. The National Electrical Manufacturers Association paid him $2,500 for the same purpose and the National Association of Wool Manufacturers $1,800. He also did business on a contingent basis for the greeting card industry. He had, he said, gotten his start in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...which praised his work as "splendid" and assured him that he had "made good" and given the association "more than we ever bargained for." Employment of Eyanson by Senator Bingham produced financial complications. As the manufacturers' agent. Lobbyist Eyanson was continuously paid by them his salary ($10,000 per year). As a Senate clerk he also signed the U. S. payroll and drew a salary at the rate of $3,000 per year from the Government. This he turned over to another Bingham clerk. After he had left Washington in August, Senator Bingham sent him a personal check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Great Lobby Hunt | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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