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...most interesting phases of the Hoover Plan for mobilizing credit is the effect upon our relations with Europe," said J. F. Ebersole, professor of Finance, at an interview yesterday. "The mere announcement of the plan should convince European banks and investors that the United States is determined to maintain the gold standard in its present form...
...maintain our gold standard in its present form means simply that we shall maintain an open and free market for the sale here by Europeans of any listed or unlisted securities which they desire to sell at existing prices, and that Europeans are free to ask to have the proceeds shipped in the form of gold coin or bullion...
...that gold can be obtained for American securities is of considerable value to Europeans, and as long as they are sure that they can continue to do so they will not exercise the privilege more than is absolutely necessary. It is of considerable benefit to the United States to maintain this situation, because it establishes New York City as one of the most important financing centers of the world, and, viewing the matter even more selfishly, it enables the American public to repatriate American securities at a rather low price level...
...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...
...other countries, Dean Sperry gave the standardization of our modern life in the United States as one of the chief causes of misunderstanding. Mentioning Thoreau and Emerson as typical of the movement towards individualism tht existed in New England a century ago, Dean Sperry appealed to the group to maintain this spirit at Harvard. The speaker gave Harvard as an example of a University not a corporate body, but an institution where many types of students are brought into contact with one another due to a lack of segregation which in some universities keeps men of one type by themselves...