Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of this country can thank God they have a Congress that hasn't made the mistake thus far of intervening in present affairs in China or of being the ally of anybody...
...above the high inventoried end of 1937) and even in a good month, U. S. copper consumption does not often exceed 80,000 tons. If forward buying books July's total copper orders to 200,000 tons or better, four or even five months' additional supply at present rate of domestic consumption will be added to inventories...
This "possibility" is at present mildly fantastic, but obviously Wendell Willkie is still going places. Into Willkie's office come 500 letters weekly, all urging him to keep up the fight, many predicting that it will wind up with him in the White House. On these Wendell Willkie casts an interested' but realistic eye. Stamped with anti-New Deal mark, he is still too much of a liberal to suit old-line Republicans. When friends ask him whether he intends to be a candidate he answers, "Wouldn't I be a sucker...
...this surplus is no comfort to Chairman Crowley. He wrote an indictment of the present state of the U. S. banking business: for 75 years the ratio of bank capital to assets and to deposits has declined. Now the number of banker-owned dollars which protect the public's deposit dollars is at a new low-about...
Certainly no new capital is now going willingly into the banking business, which can hardly earn a living at present interest rates. Chairman Crowley proposed to prepare against future crises by boosting its rate of assessment against insured bank deposits. This would of course further reduce bank earnings, further reduce the chances of getting any new capital into the banking business...