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...Tijerīno; then purported to explain the nature of the "loan contract." He alleged that a 1,000,000 credit was set up in Manhattan on which the Nicaraguan Government pays 6% annual interest, plus a 1% commission interest on the whole amount, whether any of the credit be withdrawn...
...recalled last week to Manhattan newsgatherers the fl, 1,000,000 loan negotiated between the present Nicaraguan Government (upheld by U. S. marines) and the Manhattan firms of J. &. W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. (TIME, May 16). Said Señor Tijerīno: "The loan contract was entered into with the knowledge and approval of the State Department of the United States...
...very careful study of the [loan] contract, reveals that it does not in the least deal with a straight loan at all. In other words, the bankers are not lending Nicaragua one red penny of their money...
...several million dollars by salvaging ammunition after the War. He met his wife when she won a Brooklyn beauty contest. Something romantic in him, as well as shrewd business acumen, prompted him to affiliate himself with aviation manufacturing. The U. S. Government refused to grant him an air mail contract, criticized his record. Aviators said he was trying to commercialize a sport, when financial squabbles delayed Chamberlin's flight. Levine had to do something adventurous to vindicate himself...
...respect of posterity; the reason for the lofty position of his imitator who is fasting atop a New-ark flagpole is also perfectly credible to those who read of his exploit. Saint Simeon was actuated by religious aspirations; the present marvel of Newark is in pursuit of a vaudeville contract...