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...TARIFF BOOST WORRIES JAPANESE...
...visits. President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sipped tea one afternoon with Mr. Chen, Mr. Koo, Mr. Kuo and Ambassador Sze, emissaries of China, who were there to make polite inquiries about the future of their country, inasmuch as the New Deal had seen fit to boost the price of silver so high as to force China off the silver standard.* Another set of callers included Vice President Garner, Senator Fletcher of Florida and Senator Brown of New Hampshire, who sought the President's help in concocting a measure to revive the Florida Ship Canal and Maine...
Handy had 55 men playing for him when in 1909 he was hired to boost a Memphis politician named Edward Hull Crump, who was running for Mayor. Handy wrote a song, played it on Memphis street corners...
...always tended to regard his dealers as a regrettable nuisance. In 1930 Ford dealer discounts were only 17%, far below the profit margin allowed by other motormakers. Then after Son Edsel Ford began to speak up more frequently at company councils, the rate was upped to 20%. Another boost to 22% soon followed. Last week, in the wake of a poor first quarter showing, Ford again hiked its dealer discounts, this time...
Principal action taken by the Bank of France last week was to boost the rediscount rate from 5% to 6%, the normal central banking method of inducing capi tal to remain in a country. But the flight from the franc continued...