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... worth hundreds of Founds, and the number of telephone calls have increased almost threefold. When the suspension of the gold standard was announced 161 calls to America were made, and since many of them were quite long, the Post Office made something like ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1373 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

ELECTION NEARER

... foreshadowed. CENT WISE, DOLLAR FOOLISH. City opinion names President Hoover as the man who drove Great Britain off the gold standard. Before coming to their momentous decision last week-end, which will shake international finances for long time, British ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 545 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

CITY CHAT

... realised what going off the gold standard really means. . The foreigner who previously was prepared to buy Treasury bills as a sterling bill which implied the ability to take gold does not view the sterling bill off the gold standard with the same favour. The ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 496 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

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... Finance Member said that if gol 1 prices remained at the present %eve! there was not one cosintry that could re.nain on the gold standard. Mr, kanga lyer had quoted the Currency Commission's observation that the rune* must not be linked to sterling. Br. that ...

LETTERS TO HiE EDITOR. NATIONAL CENTRE PARTY AND DRCftttiENt OOSGRAVt. To tba Editor of the Derry Journal. Dear ..

... countries still on the gold standard rtili rtp in price In exact ipropdHiort to the depreciation of sterling. This condition of things will ruin our agriculture and our country. To establish our own money system the gold standard tfotlld bare tflie if ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1741 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

NEWS SUMMARY

... an Commission to investigate economic problems. Both Sweden and Novway have followed Britain's example suspending the gold standard. Local and District. Dr Alexander Hendry, Inchgeal, Ballater, who is retiring from the position of Surgeon Apothecary to ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 622 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. I4ARKm'S RECOVER FROM A WEAK

... Loan rote sharply on the statement of the Governor of the National Bank that Belgium has no intention of going off the gold standard. Industrials were distinctly quieter, but there were several outstanding movements. Dunlop& opened Bat on the passing of ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Western Mail
County: Glamorgan, Wales
Type: | Words: 1083 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

A “BITTER” ELECTION. UNIONIST PROPHECY AT @WICK. T.U.C. CHALLENGE CUMBERLAND M.P.s AT J.I.L. SCHOOL

... majority for tariffs, and a defection might easily break the present Government at a most unfortunate time. Going off the gold standard was a form of nrotestion but not a substitute for a tariff, for it restricted tha import of raw material ag well ag ma ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Newcastle Daily Chronicle
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 455 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

JUTE TRADE BRIGHTER

... estimated the return to the gold standard in 1025 put two shillings per ton on the cost of the French importer. Now all that will be changed, he said. The coal industry will benefit from the suspension of the gold standard. All the heavy industries ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Dundee Courier
County: Angus, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 785 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

LABOUR SUPPORT^

... tfc* Gowmoeiit U> eTaryttlßg to (Ziitwee tod work have already beea Whd by the fan that before tile £ «aa •Omd fo off the gold standard prepara- Kt» bad hero designed to protect the jutry from panic and to maintaia the coa- Uact reposed m it abroad.” After ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Nottingham Journal
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: | Words: 225 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

GOLD STANDARD LATEST

... GOLD STANDARD LATEST. STOP-PRESS NEWS. Late Keuter messages state that Norway aud Sweden have gone off gold standard. ...

Published: Monday 28 September 1931
Newspaper: Western Daily Press
County: Bristol, England
Type: Article | Words: 18 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

AFTER 100 YEARS

... juncture and in connection with an election campaign. It ought by this time to be obvious that the abandonment of the Gold Standard has made the existence of a National Government not less but even more urgent than before. Uncertainty regarding all future ...