Word: publicational
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rules of procedure allow the Board to meet anywhere in Europe, though they must gather at least four times a year in the Bank headquarters at Basle. Monthly statements and an annual report must be made public...
...Swedish and a Protestant, she at first was booed by rural Belgian prudes because she puffed cigarets in public. Mother of a girl-babe, she is tolerably popular...
...Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed at even lower prices later in the slump week. At the time the Holy See gave no sign, unless an article in the Papal daily L'Osservatore Romano...
...president of Phelps-Dodge Co. To flower fanciers he is known for the unique arrangement of his Park Avenue mansion: the bedrooms open on a central hothouse filled with orchids, whose perfume lulls to sleep and soothingly awakens the James household. But to railroad men, and to the general public, Arthur Curtiss James is the man who owns more railroad stocks than any one else in the country. Great are his holdings in the Great Northern?Northern Pacific?Chicago, Burlington & Quincy group. His Western Pacific holdings are even more extensive. Strangely, in this present battle he is the largest stockholder...
...Public confidence was helped when the Stock Exchange requested its members to report details on all sales and short stock, a privilege not used since the War. Although there is of course no legal wrong in selling short, few big operators would care to be exposed as "raiding the market," especially in a period when a decline might carry along U. S. prosperity. And if the "bear pool" were found to be an actuality, disclosure of its identity would enable powerful bulls to determine exactly how much pressure would be needed to destroy...