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THE FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Banker Bogey | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

To wait for the dollar to reach fifty cents by further purchases of gold in the open market is said to involve protracted delay. The over-spending policy may in the next two weeks cause a drop in the dollar's value, but the first reaction to the $7,000...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Today in Washington | 1/9/1934 | See Source »

THE DEATH OF A WORLD-Remain Rol-land-Holt ($3.50). "The master ringers are Business and Money: politics have had their day. Economics reigns. And it certainly cannot be said that wisdom chokes them! For they have not always a human countenance. They are often octopuses, formless anonymous monsters, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Death of a World | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

The Count's memoirs were full of amorous reminiscence, some of them so explicit that his editor had to censor them; but she has left a flowery residue. At first no one girl was enough for the "Don Juan of Our Days." "The most ones of our officers had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Munchausen & Editor | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the national Association of Unemployed College Alumni there has been formed a branch organization of Unemployed Harvard Graduates, which, presumably, subscribes to the program of the Association, and which makes a few moderate requests of the college administration. These are men educated and mentally fitted for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TRUTH WITH GOLD" | 4/14/1933 | See Source »

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