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...Mayflower Hotel for consultation. Cozily established all by themselves, the Council proceeded to whip out recommendations to the Reserve Board and its member banks. The recommendation that made headlines: "History shows that the further currency inflation goes, the more difficult it becomes to control and ... it invariably results in untold losses to great masses of the people and the ruin of national credit...
...crucial test of our Government. Not only has the metal of President Roosevelt as a Chief Executive been sorely tried but the test has gone to the very heart of our form of Government. As day by day saw our economic conditions falling lower into the depths with the untold suffering in its wake, ideas of Government alien to the principles of democracy stalked in the dark overhanging clouds and turned greedy eyes towards the Capitol and the White House...
Soong. Speaking clipped Harvard English, owl-eyed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong proposed to raise and stabilize silver prices, declared that if this were done China and India could buy untold quantities of the World's products and ended with a bristling declaration: "China does not subscribe to any [Japanese] 'Monroe Doctrine' for the Far East." Shanghai cables reported that Dr. Soong obtained last week a British loan of ?20,000,000 but in London this was not confirmed...
...commodity, however, held so much hope for any one man as tin did for Simon I. Patino. Starting a poor native of the frozen mountains of Bolivia, he has wangled himself power and untold millions out of the tin mines in the mountains. Today he lives in a gilded Parisian palace, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to France, with a daughter married to a Spanish marquis and a son married to a Bourbon princess, master in his own right of 15% of the world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise...
...Anthropoids have a passion for tearing things apart, but in point of destructiveness they are bungling amateurs compared with their big-brained relative, man. . . . For untold millions of years the long line of vertebrates that led toward man was of unblushing thieves and robbers. Even now, the human face beneath its smiling mask carries the old mammalian trap set with sharp teeth. ... No wonder we suffer from grafters, gunmen and racketeers. The wonder is, not that so many of us find ourselves in prison, but that any of us have learned to keep out. "As soon as apes began...