Foreign News: Stupendous I. O. U.

At Basle, Switzerland, where most of the railroads of central Europe crisscross, met last week for their first official session the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements * or "B. I. S."

Sole Work Done: Salaries were fixed as follows:

President and Board Chairman Gates Wr. McGarrah; $50,000 (as president of New York's Federal Reserve Bank, his last job, he also received $50,000).

Deputy Board Chairman Leon Fraser: $40,000.

General Manager Pierre Quesnay. "The Bright Young Man of the Bank of France": $30,000. (President Gaston Doumergue of France...

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