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Another result of a gathering such as the present one is the revelation to the general public of the extent of international commercial and industrial agreements. As M. Jean Parmentier of France pointed out, multi-lateral industrial pacts are the outgrowth of the bilateral entente and may foreshadow an important phase of international diplomacy. These unofficial ties, such as the Franco-German agreement among the electrical construction companies are potential instruments for the keeping of world peace, because peace means prosperity. Their importance must be recognized, particularly by the United States who professing to be international peacemaker steadfastly refuses...
...methods and outlook were necessarily a product of the environment in which they built, and it is extremely unlikely that any such conditions will ever again be approximated. Mr. Baker was one of the last of the economic pioneers whose fabulous wealth and stormy careers have made the American multi-millionaire a world-wide figure of mixed curiosity and worship...
...work, he met Amadeo Peter Giannini who offered him a room, rent-free, if he would attend to some small legal matters. A few years later this association led to his becoming general counsel of Bank of Italy and in 1924 he was made president and chairman of that multi-branched institution. He has been twice decorated by the King of Italy for his work among Italian immigrants. He is a staunch advocate of bigger, stronger, fewer banks. At Los Gatos, Calif., he is president of a golf club, but never has swung a club himself. At home he raises...
Developments in New York City's judiciary scandals were warm and multi-colored last week...
...Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...