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When Counsel Untermyer discovered in what deadly earnest the brokers' hegira was going forward, and realized what it would do to realty values, he reconsidered his advice to the Mayor. Perhaps their taxes would be disastrous, after all. The Mayor's massive countenance clouded as he vetoed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hegira Halted | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

Louder than ever boomed the guns of currency inflation last week on the Washington front. The dollar was down to 63? gold. Many a Wall Streeter thought this figure already discounted actual devaluation, doubted if direct inflation would boost prices appreciably or hold them up. Oklahoma's Senator Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Inflation Finessed | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

Father Coughlin, who observed in his testimony that "the U. S. is no Jesus Christ," rumbled irrelevantly: "If the U. S. Government is so craven as to rest its case on this testimony, which was given by more or less prejudiced bankers . . . then I am very much afraid that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Whitewash in Detroit | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

An airplane carrying National Recovery Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson from St. Louis to Washington was forced down by a storm in Dayton, Ohio. Because the General had no baggage the clerk of the first hotel to which he went was suspicious, refused to give him a room unless he paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

Kublai, the mighty Khan who in the 13th Century ruled from the Yellow Sea to Poland, used to decree the pitching of his gorgeous Mongol tent every summer on the wide grasslands of Xanadu or Shangtu a few hundred miles north of Peking, which he enlarged and made his Capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Toward Righteousness! | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

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