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Spleen boiled up bitterest around a green-topped table in one of the small private committee rooms of the World Monetary and Economic Conference. As Conference President, snowy-crested Scot MacDonald had taken the table's head. Around him were grouped the chairmen, rapporteurs and vice chairmen of the two chief Conference groups, the Monetary Committee and the Economic Committee. Last to arrive was U. S. Delegate James M. Cox who battled so fiercely when the Conference first met to be elected Monetary Chairman. As he strolled in several minutes late Mr. Cox heard high words, realized that...
Keynes Lunch. Candidly Scot MacDonald admits that he knows next to nothing about economics. Eager last week to find out what President Roosevelt meant by a ''commodity dollar" the Prime Minister invited to lunch the most eminent of Britain's more radical economists. Professor John Maynard Keynes...
...jammed with reporters from wall to wall. A message from President Roosevelt was expected and delegates of the World Monetary & Economic Conference had been waiting all day for it. Suddenly the Prime Minister's motor car was sighted and word whipped round that the message had come. Scot MacDonald, alighting hatless in full evening dress, stepped inside and tried to calm the delegates, urged them by inference to go home...
...Scot MacDonald had actually stayed up until he heard from Mr. Roosevelt, he would have gone sleepless all night and propped his eyelids open most of the next...
...logical comment on the Delegates v. Press fuss was made by the New York Times which observed that Scot MacDonald, for all his talk of propaganda, really wanted the newsmen to write his own brand of propaganda, viz. that the Conference was doing great things. Said the Times...