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There were two candidates. Both were millionaires, both were machine-backed professional politicians who have long aspired to the presidency. Smallish but strongly built Candidate Gustavo Ross, who made his millions as a stockmarket operator and now annoys Chileans by keeping most of his money safely abroad, was supported by the Liberal, Conservative and Agrarian parties. His potent backers were Chile's hacendados, the Agrarians. whose previous man had been President Alessandri...
...August, U. S. recovery seemed in full marching order. The stockmarket, after a healthy reaction from the whopping June and July rise, appeared on the verge of breaking into new high ground. Factory employment gained 4.9% (1.5% is the normal August increase). And commercial loans, having sagged all through Depression II, completed in New York City three weeks of solid rise. Since then, however, European militarism has gradually got into full marching order. By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory...
...timidity of business as a whole appeared best in two broad indices, the stockmarket and the volume of commercial loans. Last week the market rebounded vigorously on the news that Czechoslovakia would give in to Hitler. In two days the Dow-Jones industrial averages jumped from 134.1 to 139.2. Then came the breakdown in negotiations, and traders pulled in their necks. The news came after Eastern exchanges were closed and dumping hit the San Francisco Exchange with a rush...
...formal war is recognized, the Maritime Commission must see to it that no U.S. bottoms carry munitions, or any other forbidden cargoes, to ports of belligerents. Other agencies prepared for possible emergencies, each in its own domain. SEC, fearful of a stockmarket crisis, conferred with officers of the New York Stock Exchange. The Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, fearful of the effects of war and the Neutrality Act on crops and prices,* studied 1914 precedents and the current state of crops and industry...
...soothing, in which the Führer expressed to the German people "in my name and in yours how deeply happy we are" that Italy has begun to take measures against the Jews. Soothingly the Proclamation told Germans that they need not be alarmed by the weakness of their stockmarket and other signs of economic strain: "German economy is being so constructed that at any time it can be completely independent from other countries. . . . This is succeeding. The idea of blockading Germany can be buried as an entirely ineffective weapon. We have no more worries about food...