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Magnus?everybody in Minnesota including himself calls him Magnus?won on a platform of Government control (in favor of the farmers) of railroads, coal mines, Federal Reserve Bank. He is for a cash soldier bonus, heavier income surtaxes, excess profits taxes, restriction of the power of the courts in granting injunctions against labor, better prices for farm products, no lowering of wages, no entangling alliances...
...feared it would add to the depreciation. The companies said a wage which varied each week would make it impossible to quote prices in doing business. The workers said that 15,000 marks an hour was the minimum on which a worker could live. They also demanded an immediate bonus of 500,000 marks...
...time to say his view was incorrect; Great Britain alone of our debtors has made arrangements to settle her debts with us, and most of the Allied debts are notoriously uncollectible, and may always remain so. Mr. Leffingwell was more successful in his opposition to the threatened soldiers' bonus bill of 1920. At one time his name was prominently mentioned for Secretary of the U. S. Treasury. Since his resignation from the Government service, he has taken a prominent part in the recent Cuban financing effected in New York, as well as in outlining a plan for the segregation...
...used to replace its silver dollars melted or broken up. It has done so for about three years. During this time the average price of silver has been 70 cents an ounce (just now it is about 65 cents an ounce). So American silver miners have been getting a bonus of about 30 cents an ounce for their product- and the Government has been paying that much more for silver than was necessary. Of the silver purchased at $1.00 an ounce, about 10,000,000 ounces were used for subsidiary coins (half dollars, quarters, dimes). In view of this fact...
...stipend of a Rhodes Scholarship is normally 300 pounds a year, but until further notice scholars will receive a bonus of 50 pounds in addition, making a total of 350 pounds per annum. The Rhodes trustees warn candidates that even this sum is not sufficient to meet the increase in prices, and that men will need to supplement their scholarship to the extent, on an average, of about 50 pounds a year...