Bretton Woods proposals aim to form global finance system
The Bretton Woods plan, endorsed by 44 nations, would create an International Monetary Fund with 8.8 billion dollars and an International Bank for Reconstruction and Development with 9.1 billion dollars. It seeks to stabilize currencies in gold terms, promote open trade, and back private international investment to rebuild war-ravaged economies.
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Walter A. Shead
WIN
United Nations
Bretton Woods
San Francisco
United States
Bank For Reconstruction and Development
France
Italy
Norway
Poland
Finland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Balkan
England
China
India
Burma
Germany
Japan
International Bank
Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
Committee For Economic Development
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corporation
Congress
Roosevelt
International Fund and Bank
Bureaucratic Verbiage and Civil Duty Across Government
A Western Newspaper Union release decries government jargon in treasury and agricultural departments from 1909 to 1942. It argues impenetrable instructions burden farmers and urges interpreters, plus a link to American citizenship and liberty including a call for peaceful protest within legal bounds.
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Treasury
Agricultural Departments
Agricultural Department
Washington
Bureau of Information
Department of Agriculture
George Wharton
Wharton
Department
OPA
WFA
WMPA
WLEB
Ludendorf
Rhine
Rhine Valley
Hitler
Schutzstaffel
Remagen
MacARTHUR KIRK MARCHMENT WARRIDES DASHED IN CONFIDENT SESSION
In a secret Senate Military Affairs briefing General George Marshall warned that Germany may still resist despite expected collapse. He noted Germany's fuel shortages, simple repair paths, and the risk of a delayed end to the war even after Germany falls. He also cautioned the Pacific fight will be extremely tough.
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Macarthur-Kirk
Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
George Marshall
Germany
Gestapo
Marshall
Japan
Pacific
MacArthur
Kirk
Leyte
War Department
Krueger
Eichelberger
Kenney
Arnold
Eisenhower
Patton
Hodges
Simpson
Patch
Devers
Chinese and British Delegates Discuss Chinese Finance
Dr. H. H. Kung, minister of finance for China and chairman of the Chinese delegation, speaks with Lord Keynes of England who leads the British group. The Chinese currency has been devalued by inflation from the long war with Japan, and British bankers fear for Chinese financial stability amid global monetary concerns and British interests in China.
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H. H. Kung
China
Lord Keynes
England
Monetary Authority
Japan
Notable Art and Literature Feats by Centenarians
A list of famous works and milestones claimed to be produced or achieved at advanced ages. Verdi’s Falstaff, Tintoretto’s Paradiso, Goethe’s Faust completion, Tennyson’s Crossing the Bar, and Titian’s Battle of Lepanto are cited, with ages ranging from 74 to 98.
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Verdi
Tintoretto
Goethe
Faust
Cato
Tennyson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Gladstone
England
Titian
Lepanto
Venice
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U. S
Argentina
the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Center
J. L.sey
Canada
Western Newspaper Union
Un-American Activities Committee of the House
Norman Kirk
Manila
General Kirk
General MacArthur
Luzon
Army Medical Corps
Joseph Stalin
Churchill
Yalta
Europe
Stalin
Post
Pang Acconbiens
Uncle Sam
Fred. Oretsch
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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