Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depending on his ability to keep the belga on gold, Premier Georges Theunis last week went to work. In few countries have Government expenses been pared so sharply as in Belgium. Yet last week Elder Statesman Theunis, backed by two of Belgium's richest men. Minister Without Portfolio Emile Francqui (banks, copper) and Finance Minister Camille Gutt (Katanga Copper), pared 5% more off Government pensions and salaries, 50%, off rent allowances, a big slice off relief allowances to the provinces...
...control. For these various undertakings Denver & Rio Grande needed RFC assistance, and in a deal which the New York Herald Tribune rated as "one of the most complicated and most involved in railroad history," Mr. Jones ended up with practically all of the Moffat stock in his bulging portfolio of collateral. To "keep in touch with the situation" Mr. Jones put in his own management. Denver & Rio Grande, still legally the parent company, may redeem its Moffat stock when & if it pays off a total of $10,700,000 in RFC loans...
Most people thought Canabal would pop up in the Cardenas Cabinet as Minister of Education, to scourge the pious with fresh assaults of Godless teaching. When President Cardenas last week gave Canabal the portfolio of Agriculture a good many people breathed easier. They thought it meant that the new Administration will lean toward more drastic enforcement of Mexico's radical expropriation laws ("Land to the peons!") and ease up a bit on the Church. Taking no chances, pious mobsters showered Canabal with stones when they caught his motor car leaving the home of ex-President Calles at Cuernavaca, screamed "Curse...
...debt settlement with the U. S. in 1925. Now a ranking Belgian elder statesman, former Premier Theunis emerged from retirement with reluctance. "The task is not simple," said he, "but I will do my best." His best, completed after three days, included M. Francqui as Minister Without Portfolio...
Surrealist Dali rushed forward effusively and promptly began pulling etchings and small paintings from his portfolio. Through his sponsor, Mrs. Caresse Crosby, he explained his methods...