HUNGARY: Dictator

Yankee Jeremiah Smith, Boston's lawyer prodigy and Hungary's financial dictator,* sailed last week from his native land for the scene of his labors. He responded readily to the interrogations of the Amerikai Magyar Nepsava, a leading American Hungarian journal.

He had been allowed 30 months and lie did it in 6; balanced Hungary's budget and stabilized her currency. This achievement, Mr. Smith thought, would last.

He spoke of high taxation and insisted that, for some time to come, it would be necessary. He spoke of prices, which once 21,900 points above the 1914...

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