Word: reichsbanker
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...squabbles, timidity engendered by the start of the "opoly" hearings. More tangible is the point that the Government's spending, even though operating at a level $400,000,000 greater than last year, is again proving to be a mere teaser. All this greatly amused Germany's Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. With German industrial production up 100% in five years, he took occasion in a Berlin speech to praise a "directed economy," crack that Germany had not needed to "finance consumption through the arbitrary scattering of money by the State...
...United Steel Works), dipped for the first time in several years below its par of 100 marks per share. None doubted that without the strict Nazi control of German finance the break would have been even worse. Although prices later recovered perhaps half their losses last week, as the Reichsbank strongly supported blue chips, the mood of the average German investor had turned deeper blue...
...turned to German naval purposes. It forbade the sale. For her part, Turkey suspected that the Germans wanted to play the part of the middleman in the deal, getting the middleman's rake-off in a resale to Turkey involving blocked marks held for Turkey in the German Reichsbank. Since the Turks explicitly said the ship would be used only as a floating palace for their beloved "Father," the sale to Turkey was sanctioned, was even approved by the U. S. State Department. The Nazis rather crudely complicated things when a court order temporarily restrained the boat from passing...
Into Vienna last week, three days ahead of the Feldmarschall, charged German Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Europe's most unorthodox and potent economic prestidigitator. He has kept on for so many years pulling steel and cannon out of the hat of virtually busted Germany, that what he can do with a Greater Germany, now not quite so busted by reason of the addition of Austria, simply remains to be seen. Dr. Schacht took Austria's gold last week as a matter of course and no Austrian protest was recorded...
...Niemoller, who threw into saving German souls the same brawling vigor that stood him in good stead sinking ships, had corralled Berlin's wealthiest and most influential congregation for his Jesus Christus Kirche in the swank suburb Dahlem. Such redoubtable parishioners as Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht, autocratic Reichsbank Governor, immensely liked the two-fisted sermons Pastor Niemoller preached...