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countries "dumping" large amounts of silver on the world market, by reducing the amount of silver they used in coins. Chadbourne estimated that half of the world's population held its wealth in silver. Those individuals saw their wealth steadily eroded with the growing worldwide silver surplus. The proposed system would work much in the same way as the
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of the United States is dependent upon world trade. Our production, farm and factory, has been developed to a point where it is from ten to twenty per cent in excess of domestic demand, and any failure to find foreign markets for this surplus means the dislocation of our whole industrial establishment."
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Chadbourne, Babbit & Wallace, the firm underwent a 1924 merger to become Chadbourne, Stanchfield, & Levy before it took on its current name. Chadbourne & Parke is consistently ranked among the top 100 law firms in the world. At the time of his death, Chadbourne served as board
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and emphasized the necessity of world trade in establishing and sustaining
American affluence: "Only the blind can fail to see that distance has been annihilated, geographical barriers smashed down, and that it is now an interlocked and absolutely interdependent world in which we live. he prosperity
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uses monetary policy. To stem inflation, Chadbourne asserted, nations could release stock of silver into the market from their reserves. The concept differs from
Federal Reserve tools primarily in that a "bullion" is a stock measured in volume, rather than monetary value. Chadbourne hoped to change
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government. To alleviate misgivings from impoverished consumers in his native United States, Chadbourne stressed that the maneuver would serve to restore prices paid by refineries to sugar producers but would not affect retail prices. Some contemporaries took exception at that claim. Among these,
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Chadbourne represented some of the largest firms in the world in a period of globalization during the 1920s during which multi-national corporations began to be established in significant numbers. Following the 1929 crash, he summed up his own responsibility thus: "The capitalistic system is on
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Chadbourne took a series of night jobs, including one as a police officer, before he was hired by Judge
Russell Wing at the law firm Wing and Carter. Despite never attending law school, Chadbourne's training under Judge Wing left him well prepared for the state bar exam, which he passed with a
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Chadbourne argued for the creation of a "silver reserve system" wherein all countries would agree to hold a reserve stock (a bullion) of silver and to produce coinage using a consistent portion of silver. The plan was conceived in response to silver devaluation, which
Chadbourne attributed to
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At age 19, Chadbourne was turned out of the house by his parents. His father left him at the train station bound for
Chicago with $ 150 and the advice that he was "not fitted for a profession or any other work in life that calls for mental effort" and should go into manual labor.
444:: "How have we gone about the business of protecting and promoting the world trade so vital to our prosperity? We pass the highest tariff bill in history...and with what result? Already some forty-five nations have raised tariff walls of their own in direct retaliation."
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chairman of the
International Mining Corporation and was a director of some 20 corporations. He had amassed a fortune and was regarded by some contemporaries as a "radical capitalist" for his views on profit sharing and recognition of collective bargaining rights.
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trial. If we think the people who are running the industries of this world can by reason of greed bring about such a depression as this and not take steps to mend it, no matter what sacrifice may be to individuals, we are mistaken. We can't get away with it."
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over the course of 1917 to 1921, much of which is reprinted in
Chadbourne's autobiography. Chadbourne sat on the War Trade Board from which he resigned, despite urgings from the president to stay, to attend his ailing wife.
289:, the Chadbourne Committee, meeting in Brussels under Chadbourne's leadership, secured an agreement between several nations to reduce production and establish export quotas. (Yale) Signatories included
270:, in November 1906. Chadbourne regarded Grace as the love of his life and the two traveled extensively. Chadbourne adopted her son LeRoy. Grace suffered from cancer in 1918 and died in May 1919.
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Chadbourne, on January 15, 1921. The couple had two daughters: Marjorie and Leila, who was named after Chadbourne's deceased sister.
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would respond to the ongoing crisis by adopting such compulsory measures, along with subsidies for farmers leaving land uncultivated, under the
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Flynn, John T. (August 1, 1931). "Sweet and Low: Sugar on the Table and What's Wrong With It".
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Creel, George (August 15, 1931). "We're Grown-Ups Now : But We Suffer from Infantilism".
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