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...President will accept up to $100,000,000 in silver as payment on War debts at a rate of not more than 50? an ounce. This sop to boost the silver market holds good for only one year. The silver payments will be used for coinage to back an issue of silver certificates...
...borrowing is obviously not yet completed. Nobody knows exactly how many more billions Mr. Woodin will need to buy preferred stock in reopened banks, to relieve unemployment, to do over Muscle Shoals and the Tennessee Valley, to refinance farm and home mortgages, to reforest hills, to revamp railroads, to boost wheat, cotton and other prices. Selling a huge bond issue will not be easy until the public knows i) that the ordinary Budget is balanced; 2) what limit is going to be set on extraordinary expenditures...
State insurance commissioner is in ordinary times a job much like the job of state bank commissioner: super-auditor to see that no one plays hocus-pocus with money that the public lays away for emergencies. The March bank holiday, which boosted bank commissioners to jobs approaching economic dictatorships, gave a similar boost to insurance commissioners. Runs on banks led to runs on life insurance companies (by policyholders who wanted to borrow on their policies or surrender them for cash) and runs on insurance companies led to an insurance half-holiday: death and disability benefits, matured endowments and annuities continued...
...main for weeks to build up Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, Walker's gauche but apparently honest successor, into a respected character for next November's municipal election. Upon his success depends Tammany's grip on the city government. Last week Tammany received an unexpected boost when Judge Seabury told the Yale Daily News...
Secretary of Commerce. Daniel Calhoun Roper, 65, was a forgotten man of the Wilson Administration until Mr. Roosevelt unexpectedly boosted him into the Cabinet. Responsible for the boost was William Gibbs McAdoo whose Madison Square Garden fight for the Presidency Mr. Roper managed. The Roper appointment infuriates the Al Smith faction of the party, for in 1928 the new Secretary of Commerce became a Hoovercrat by default when he sailed for Europe. Loose-jowled, bespectacled old "Dan" Roper is nominally from South Carolina, where he was born and where he still has two cotton plantations. But for the last...