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...Harding's wife Florence (the "Duchess") who strong-armed both the newspaper and the man into success. A virago of a woman five years older than her "Wurr'n," she was the one driving masculine principle in her husband's life-the force that thrust him upward out of the comfortable country editor's chair in which Harding liked to slump in a "digestive trance" after lunch...
...give them their due, though, they finally did come through with a combination of revised export and import taxes which have the same effect on the international prices of their goods as a 4 or 5 per cent upward revaluation would have had. (But adjusting export taxes does not have the same psychological impact on speculators that a revaluation has, and the Germans knew that, too.) And their position wasn't really so harsh, once it had been stripped of its vindictiveness. They were asking why they should sacrifice any of Germany's hard-earned prosperity simply because the English...
...least for the moment, a major upheaval (see BUSINESS). But the political consequences of the crisis continued to reverberate in half a dozen capitals, The West Germans had defended the Deutsche Mark against the combined efforts of France, Britain and the U.S. to bring about the mark's upward revaluation, a move that would have relieved the pressure on the ailing franc and pound. In the process, the Germans displayed an independence-and a political muscle-unknown in the years since their defeat in 1945. Other Europeans found that display disturbing. As West German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister...
...Revalue certain currencies. Among the undervalued currencies at present are the mark, the Swiss franc and probably the Italian lira and the Dutch guilder. Many financial experts believe that they should all be scaled slightly upward. The overvalued currencies-generally those that cannot buy as many goods and services at home as abroad-are the dollar, the pound and De Gaulle's franc...
Bacon's show may prove to be the most popular of the season; in the first week, all 19 oils have been either sold or reserved for prices ranging upward from $35,000 for the smallest multiple-image portraits. For nearly 20 years, he has been renowned in inner circles as Britain's finest figurative painter; his works have hung in U.S. museums since the early 1950s. His commercial success is a telling comment on just how open-minded the general public has become, for Bacon's material is, to put it simply, sick...