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Next day two statesmen from the American continent-Tennessee's fervent Cordell Hull and Canada's vehement Premier Richard Bedford Bennett-joined forces to put President Roosevelt's thesis across. For several days the British dominions, all far more radical than the Mother Country, had been warming up to the special Roosevelt brand of "price raising." All speeches made were kept secret, but at one point Secretary Hull brandished under the knifelike nose of French Finance Minister Bonnet a copy of that thick pamphlet, the Conference agenda, asking with passionate emphasis whether there were not scores...
...including Holworthy were called "Colleges," and up until the Civil War people used to speak of the "Colleges at Cambridge," when speaking of the buildings in the Yard. Here the first Commencement took place in 1642, which included, just as today, orations in Latin and English, elder statesmen and church dignitaries, and hoards of beaming parents. The stock joke of the Latin orations then, as now, was the term, "Pulcherimis puellas," at which the gathering has laughed with boring regularity for 300 years. From 1654 to 1698 Harvard boasted an Indian College a little brick house which stood where Matthews...
...hero last week to his people. Russia's roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov. While the Conference proper stewed over stabilization (see p.15), Comrade Litvinov bustled busily around London attending to three major outside jobs. In his thick Jewish English and even thicker French he bargained with statesmen of at least eight nations, closed a thumping deal with Professor Raymond Moley. The professor's wallet seemed to contain last week chiefly U. S. $20 bills. Short of English money, he once or twice was seen to borrow taxi fare. In his talks with Comrade Litvinov recognition...
...reject any pact for permanent dollar stabilization, but would he agree to a joint statement pledging the world's central banks to steady the dollar, at least for the duration of the Conference? Such a statement must be carefully worded. Locked in a big room the gold standard statesmen, dubbed "Golders" by London correspondents, wrote in succession seven statements. These were carried one after the other by British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain into another room. There they were rejected one after another by the U. S. Delegation's acting fiscal expert James P. Warburg. The eighth...
...light of Japan's dazzling conquest in Manchuria who was right: the few Japanese statesmen and financiers who stood out against war or the youths who murdered them? In Tokyo last week 13 youths, Blood Brothers of the patriotic murder sect led by strapping Priest Nissho Inouye, were brought to trial with him. At his bidding they assassinated last year ex-Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye (who argued that the Japanese budget could not support a war) and Japan's No. 1 financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan (convinced to the roots of his gentle soul that the Mitsui business...