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About the same time, a small group of men assembled in the Governor's rooms of the Bank of England and signed an important contract. Chief among the men present were the Rt. Hon. Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; J. P. Morgan, representing U. S. underwriters; Dr. Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, and Dr. Hans Luther, German Minister of Finance, representing their Fatherland...
...contract was for the 800,000,000 gold marks ($200,000,000) loan to be advanced to Germany by the world under provisions of the Experts' Plan (TIME, Apr. 21). The U. S. will take $110,000,000; Great Britain ?12,000,000 ($54,000,000; the remaining quarter will be divided among France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Italy...
...Massachusetts, a policeman of a city is a public officer holding his office as a trust from the State, and not as a matter of contract between himself and the city. Police appointments are referred to cities and towns by the legislature as a convenient mode of exercising a function of government...
...sigued a year's contract with the St. James Stock Company of Boston, after several years in Boston amateur drama...
...proposals for legislation. He repeated that President Coolidge had promised to create such a commission; and he considered the moment opportune for such an enterprise, since the pressure of farm problems is temporarily relieved by better crop prices. He concluded: "Whoever promises more than this is entering into a contract which cannot be filled...