Word: rt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history. Certain statesmen, notably those of the British Labor Cabinet, hold that the "hoarding" of this vast treasure by France and the U. S. renders a great part of it "sterile." In London "sterilization" has become a common, an ominous word. It rolls glibly off the tongue pf the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas as a stock excuse for Britain's troubles. If only this sterile gold were put into fecund circulation, reasons Mr. Thomas, if only the three-fifths of the World's gold held by two nations were more widely distributed, then there would...
...notions of Socialists, might be ignored by financiers. But last week the leading chieftains of international finance were plainly worried about Gold and the kindred problems of German reparations, Allied War debts. Within the fortnight Messrs John Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young were in London, conferring with Rt. Hon. Montagu Collett Norman, Governor of the Bank of England. Tipped off that Mr. Young was in Paris last week "incognito and making a great effort to keep his whereabouts secret," correspondents sought out Governor George Leslie Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at his Paris hotel, asked bluntly...
...pointed out that short-term French credits in London last week almost equalled the gold reserve of the Bank of England, that the Old Lady must be ready to meet any sudden French demand, that she faces moreover two major Empire monetary problems: 1) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden's reputed intent to convert a huge part of the $48,000,000,000 British 5% War bonds now outstanding, paying off the holders with the proceeds of a loan floated on current "cheap money" at a lower rate of interest; and 2) the imminent need...
...Canada's Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett, however, the City Chamberlain seemed to have some slight present doubts. At the first session of the Imperial Conference Prime Minister Bennett was very outspoken about Canada's rights, even in some respects defied the Mother Country (TIME...
When Lucy and the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin returned last September from their annual water cure at Aix-les-Bains, she was said to have successfully bucked him up, persuaded him out of his strong desire to resign as Leader of the Conservative Party...