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...Currencies were crashing all around us, and while the guilder held firm [at about 40?] we didn't know what might happen. . . . We decided that America's indorsement of our solvency would be of great value, and went to America for money. Since then most of that loan has been bought back by Dutch investors. Our finance, gentlemen, is sound...
Ivan Bratt will escape being "out of a job" during the liquor investigation by becoming Director of the Paris Office of the great Swedish ball bearing firm called S. K. F. (which controls the French ball bearing industry). Thus Dr. Bratt will receive the large salary which he frankly admits that he now needs, to put his children through college. A realist to the last, he will earn with S. K. F. what he has refused to earn from the Bratt Monopoly. Indeed he drew up the monopoly articles of incorporation with such cunning that nobody can profiteer in selling...
Essence of Brattism: "Impose reasonable conditions and enforce them . . . firmly. . . . The control of liquor must be human, not superhuman; firm, not rigid; slow, not fast; democratic in aims, but individualistic in application...
Last week. Charles Hayden, affable, playful, cultured and immensely able head of an immensely potent firm of private bankers, Hayden, Stone & Co.; Charles Hayden, keen bridge player and a director of probably more famed companies than any other financier, took an immensely important command in the Republican political army. He agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck...
...John Holladay Latane, U. S. history man. At a Smith rally, a fortnight ago, Dr. Latane said: "Speaking as a historian, I say very seriously that it is my opinion that the Society of Jesus*in the palmiest days of its history never held a nation in so firm a grasp as the 'political parsons' of certain Protestant sects hold the United States today. Whenever I pass that large building in Washington, which overlooks the Capitol and houses of the offices of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, I feel like...