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...irascible holder of a German bond tried to attach the S. S. Europa one day last January, the Council dispatched Lawyer Laird Bell to the Berlin conference between the German Government and John Foster Dulles, acting as representative of the U. S. banking houses which had issued German bonds. Upshot of that conference was a slight increase in interest payments on German dollar bonds and a promise by the German Government that it would cease treating European creditors more handsomely than U. S. creditors...
...Joshua) Reuben Clark Jr., Mormon lawyer from Salt Lake City who succeeded the late Dwight Morrow as Ambassador to Mexico. The negotiations involved all the 100 or more issues comprising Brazil's $1,000.000,000 of external debt. French, Dutch and British bondholders were also represented. Upshot of this conference was a pact segregating the various issues into eight classes on which service on all but one (old defaults) will be promptly resumed in whole or in part. A few Federal issues will pay full interest and sinking funds charges. The rest, including most State and municipal issues, will...
...Upshot of the meeting was 1) a decision to inaugurate two more Government banks to finance foreign trade, like the Export-Import Bank formed last month to facilitate trade with Russia. Mr. Peek -who had brought to the meeting a man-sized plan for the creation of a Foreign Trade Administration-accepted the presidency of the three banks. 2) A tariff message from the President is expected to be sent to Congress this week...
...Upshot was appointment of a committee of three faculty members, nine students to receive written, signed complaints, pass them on to the administration. Student Editor L. H. Edmondson of the Duke
...young men who glide around examination halls, dealing out bluebooks, and making noisome speeches. But it appears that someone beat us to it. There was, it appears, a wager between two amiable fellows, the gist of which was that proctors were or were not worth their salt. And the upshot was that the more intelligent of the two had to prove his point...