... GOLD STANDARD SUSPENSION Commerce President's Confidence More Intelligent Control Sir William Clare Lees, president of the Association of British Chambers Co'»- merce, at their annual meeting at to-day, said: We approve the action of the Government ...

... SWITZERLAND TO MAINTAIN GOLD STANDARD Berne, Fi° The gold standard and the parity of the Swiss gold franc must be maintained in view of the present economic position declared M. Musy, bead of the Financial Department, before the National Council, today ...

... CURRENT EVENTS Prices Off The Gold Standard By ARGUS the first time for many wee „ there is announced a diminution the numbers of the unemployed. i the same time there are pub^ 5 assurances by various trade associ-' 1 that there will be no immediate ...

... currency Norway has placed the sum of 17,000.000 Rold kroners in an international bank following the decision to abolish the gold standard. The central banks Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland havo also decided on measures to maintain the parity their r ...

... situation. Lectures on the Gold Standard. Mr Wilson made the interesting announcement that the Scool Committee intended to arrange, if practicable, a short course of lectures on the present financial situation and the gold standard. The fee applicable to ...

... understood that this will an ordinary seasonal rise and has nothing to do at all with the crisis or our going off the gold standard. It happened last year and the year before, and there is nothing extraordinary about it. ...

... down its rolling stock mills at Wissen in the Sieg Valley and discharge 1000 men employed, are said to directly due the gold standard crisis Britain. ...

... decline over last night's close, but within five minutes prices dropped points on reports that Japan was going off the gold standard, causing heavy selling cotton firms with Japanese interests, and a decline in the rate of exchange for the pound sterling ...

... 1 get a general election are most willing to give up the prospect of sC ing it. g They argue that since we are vV the gold standard it does not matter , longer what foreign countries think * us and that they can indulge hankering for good old-fashioned ...

... man to marry only one wife, and this was called monotony. What most schoolboys would like se« abolished is the good gold standard. ** * * What the modern girl coming asks a writer. Slowly, but surely, to middle age. ♦* * is said that an elephant ...

... ot foreign exchange is follows:— The Lord Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury in pursuance of section 1 (3) of the Gold Standard Amendment Act, 1931, hereby order that until further notice purchase of foreign exchange or transfers of funds with the ...

... to Downing Street, and respite affords an opportunity for politicians to observe the effects of the suspension of the gold standard. Although in a more subdued key the controversy between the advocates of early election and those who take a contrary view ...