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...slack lay entirely in the fact that the nation's banks now have some $3,000,000,000 in reserves over & above what they need to support their present business. That excess could support a credit expansion of at least $30,000,000,000. It is the threat of such credit inflation that gives bankers like Chase National's Chairman Winthrop Aldrich the jitters every time they think about it. And, through the mysteries of central banking, excess reserves are about to take another rise as a result of the payment of the Bonus, the Reserve Board estimating...
...part at least, its 1934 action had been wrongful and un-warranted." Rather than risk its whole case in the courts, the Government, on the Attorney General's recommendation, compromised with the airlines for sums earned but withheld for two years, decided not to make good its threat of criminally prosecuting the airlines...
...surprising that A. F. of L. craft union leaders in Washington last week should be virtually as angry and alarmed as were U. S. steelmasters at John Lewis' current campaign to organize U. S. steel workers in one big industrial union. For it was no less a threat to the established order and profits of one group than of the other...
...that peace conference which will have to be held after Europe has once again been drenched in blood; if they would be prepared to make now, in advance, only a tithe of the sacrifice each of them would have to make when war was begun, the terrible menace which threat ens us all today could be warded off. "The problems that distract Europe to day should not be left for soldiers to decide. . . . They should be tackled now by the statesmen...
...Europe but we can't see why we should be the victims of their colonial expansion. . . . Italian propaganda in Palestine probably exists to some extent but I see no reason why we should exchange British rule for Italian. On the contrary, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia is a threat against the two independent states on the Arabian peninsula: Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Mussolini has no chance of gaining followers among the Arabians; he has instead contributed to the speedy growth of the Pan-Arab movement...