Business: Governor, Senator, Dollar

Last week chunky, moon-faced Governor George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank was in Basle, Switzerland looking on at a regular monthly meeting of directors of the Bank for International Settlements. In his capacity as international banker for the Federal Reserve System, he hoped to collect information from European bank heads on credit and business conditions, explain, in return, what he knew about U. S. business. But because he had never been to Basle before and because he was in direct charge of the Government's...

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