Word: speyers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Washington Luiz Pereira de Sousa. Last week hope loomed. A $100,000,000 loan to support Brazil's coffee hoard in Sao Paulo (principal coffee state) was announced to be in process of negotiation by J. Henry Schroder & Co. of London and their potent Manhattan correspondent Speyer...
Ticklish was the task faced by genial, dapper James ("Jim") Speyer, who was born in the home city of the house of Rothschild, Frankfort, Germany. As well as anybody Jim Speyer knew that a Secretary of Commerce by the name of Herbert Clark Hoover laid down what has since become an unwritten law of Washington: the Government will discourage subscription by U. S. citizens to loans intended to support a foreign monopoly...