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...stanch example to other Dominions, the Government of Canada followed up the Empire Declaration last week by turning for a loan to London instead of New York, for the first time in 20 years. She borrowed ?15,000,000 (63,054,000 Canadian dollars or 67,800,000 U. S. dollars at current exchange) at 4%, will use the money partly to finance Canadian public works, partly for redemption of other Canadian bond issues...
...this portfolio after Carter Glass turned it down. The appointment of such a successful manufacturer of railroad equipment to head Federal finances heartened U. S. business. Secretary Woodin is a "hard money" man who can be counted on to oppose all schemes for currency inflation. He was a stanch Union League Republican until, as fuel administrator for New York in 1922, he came under the spell of Governor Smith, whose presidential candidacy he supported...
...form of negotiable tax rebates) to German employers in proportion as they add to their factory staffs; 3) to block all Socialist (and of course Communist) measures, especially those proposing to break up the huge estates in East Prussia of German Junkers who are the neighbors and stanch friends of Prussian-born President von Hindenburg...
...This verdict cannot be understood," said the Nationalist Nachtausgabe, stanch supporter of President von Hindenburg. "The Supreme Court's ruling is two-faced," snapped the Industrialist Allgemeine Zeitung. Dryly the Socialist Vorwärts recalled the Judgment of Solomon, heaped ironic praise on Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke, declared "The child has been nicely cut in two and each contending mother has received one-half...
...eleventh birthday approached last week, his mother Princess Helen (who is estranged from King Carol and lives in London) traveled to Rumania. At the frontier she was met by the Rumanian Train and brought secretly to a suburban royal villa without entering Bucharest. Possibly Dr. Maniu, always a stanch champion of Princess Helen, will manage to patch things up. When he broke with the King two years ago Citizen Maniu reputedly said: "Sire, you can never be crowned unless the mother of Prince Mihai is crowned as Queen by your side...