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Scrip. President Roosevelt's proclamation pointed directly to the general use of scrip as a means of exchange. Secretary of the Treasury Woodin intimated that the Government would issue no national scrip but would leave each financial area to develop its own system under Federal supervision. Bankers worked night & day planning to issue this money substitute while presses whirled out millions of oblongs of paper which citizens would be asked to accept in lieu of cash...
...blow to general business confidence. On the New York Stock Exchange, both shares and bonds were sold down to the lowest prices of the year. A staggering rise of money in circulation to the highest point of the Depression was blamed chiefly on huge cash shipments to the Detroit area. European speculators neatly hitched news of the eight-day moratorium to the attempt on President-elect Roosevelt's life for a quick raid on the dollar. Francs and belgas shot aloft. A brief outflow of U. S. gold followed...
...made no such statement. But the figures are correct."... Peregrine White '33, president of Phillips Brooks House, "We will be glad to cooperate." ... A. N. Holcombe '06, "I can see no plausible reason why this should have any detrimental influence on the aggrandizement of Japan in the disputed area in the Liaotung Peninsula." ... W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, ex-president of the CRIMSON, "The continue lines are wrong." ... F. D. Roosevelt '04, former Harvard man, "I wanted him for my Cabinet." ... A. L. Lowell '77, President of the University, "I have not said anything for twenty-four years...
Cambridge, like Boston, is merely one municipality among the many which compose the metropolitan district. This district, as defined by the U.S. Census authorities, comprises an area of 1,022 square miles, and contained in 1930 a total population of 2,300,000 persons. The city of Boston occupied less than 44 square miles and had a population of 781,000. Cambridge with a much smaller area, numbered 113,000 inhabitants. The population of the district as a whole grow during the preceding decade at the rate of 14.9 per cent., but that of Cambridge grew no more than...
Dwelling, as their forbears have dwelt for centuries in the fertile, balmy Kuban adjoining the Black Sea, the 46,000 Cossacks farmed a rich area around four towns: Poltavskaya, Medvyedevsky, Urupskaya, Umanskaya. They may or may not have tried to grow & deliver as much grain as the Five-Year Planners thought they should. Last week with no exception every Cossack man, woman and child in the area was bundled off "to work near the Arctic Circle" in unspecified mines and lumber camps...