Word: reichsbanker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Guarantee us peace," begged Mr. Guinness, "and Germany will find she has no sincerer and no more useful friend in the world than Britain! . . . I have noticed that Dr. Schacht is building a fine new structure for the Reichsbank which has plenty of room for a substantial quantity of gold. Subject to political adjustments, no better investment could be made of some of the gold now hoarded in Threadneedle Street and Kentucky than a loan to Germany...
...desk of overworked Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics, there came last week a neatly typed memorandum signed by the presidents of a dozen large mortgage banks. The Nazi Government, they complained, scrabbling for every pfennig to pay for its fabulous armament program, has practically taken over their entire capital, making it impossible for them to issue mortgage loans, their chief source of income. If this practice is not stopped, some of the mortgage banks will be forced to close...
...hrer may at any time characteristically revert with angry vigor, making it mean then that Germany "claims" the colonies now under the British, French and other League Mandates "taken away from her after the World War," but such was not the meaning his amicable tone conveyed last week. †Reichsbank President Schacht, Foreign Minister von Neurath, Finance Minister von Krosigk, Chief of Staff General von Fritsch, Admiral of the Fleet Raeder, Rübenach (Transport) and Seldte (Labor...
...proletariat, they had not up to this week been ousted by popular uprising from any important area which they have occupied. Of the 68 branches of the Bank of Spain, 38 were under regular White administration, and the German Government, in extending diplomatic recognition, confirmed so far as the Reichsbank is concerned the regulation of Generalissimo Franco that a Spanish bank-note is worthless unless it bears his Fascist stamp...
...real Four-Year Plan, for the Nazis have evolved nothing so specific as the Five-Year Plans of the Bolsheviks. Everything pointed this week to continued German economic tightrope dancing of a vaguely conservative and vaguely orthodox character under the Great Extemporizer, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economics. Last April, when the Nazi radicals had been working up for several months within the Party a campaign to force dismissal of Dr. Schacht, General Göring abruptly took Germany's fiscal wizard under his hulking personal protection, and last week Adolf Hitler erected this...