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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brisbane did more than grumble. He sneered: "Borrowers should send three large gilt balls to be hung above the Federal Reserve Bank entrance, and similar ornaments to some of the big banks." He threatened: "This is what the law of New York State says, Section 370: 'The legal rate of interest shall not be more than $6 on $100 for one year.' Every bank charging more than 6% interest is violating the law and knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moneymarket | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan's bankers failed to tremble. They answered neither sneers nor threats. Had they wished, however, they might have said: "We charge no more than the legal 6% interest rate. The additional 1% is a carrying fee, to compensate us for our trouble in carrying the account." This was, of course, one of many current evasions of the law's letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Moneymarket | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Because five hundred million dollars of gold had been shipped away from the U. S. this year, the shipment of $2,500,000 from England to the U. S. last week, was memorable. It was the first time in more than a year that such movement had happened. Interest rate on loans is the cause. Money in New York cost 7% to 8%, in London 4½%; and money goes where it earns most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...American Weekly is the Sunday supplement of the 28 Hearst newspapers. Advertisers are invited to regard it as a sort of magazine. It has a circulation of 25,000,000 (Saturday Evening Post has less than 3,000,000). Its advertising rate is $16,000 per page. Its contents are entirely lurid: huge pictures and meaningless text about the scandals of Europe's lesser nobility, dinosaurs, spooks, freaks of science, etc. Eleven years ago, Publisher Hearst, despairing of selling advertising in such a thing, offered to give one Albert J. Kobler a big commission for every advertisement sold. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kobler's Dreams | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Also called breakbone, dandy, stiffnecked and knockel-koorts. It is an acute, communicable disease of short duration, characterized by a sudden onset; usually with severe pains in the head, muscles, bones and joints; fever; a bounding pulse increased in rate; and an irregular eruption. The disease always terminates in recovery if no complications are present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Fever | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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