Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Does this Anglophile in Phoenix, Ariz., actually believe Britain to be "facing the music" when the action of Neville Chamberlain in completely ignoring the debt of billions of dollars to the U. S. is apparently not only condoned by the British people but praised...
...evident that it has attached them to garters. If Britain is the only nation which has "faced the music" it is big and good news for the U. S. Treasury, which still remains under the impression that London balanced its budget by defaulting in its war debt...
...request of the citizens of Atlanta, we have cleaned out nine square blocks of antiquated, squalid dwellings, for years a detriment to this community. Today those hopeless old houses are gone and in their place we see the bright, cheerful buildings of the Techwood housing project. Maximum Debt. "In the spring of 1933 many of the great bankers of the United States flocked to Washington. They were there to get help of their Government in the saving of their banks from insolvency. . . . Every one of these gentlemen expressed to me the firm conviction that it was all well worth...
...large the public debt of any nation can grow without plunging that nation into disaster is something that no mortal man can calculate. The credit of a nation, like the credit of a man, is good so long as it can make ends meet. After its budget ceases to balance, its credit remains good so long as men believe that its budget will again balance. But how long men will thus believe is not written on the books of any treasury. Conceivably the U. S. might have twice its present public debt and men might still believe its credit good...
Nothing was said about the bond issue in the memoranda which Mr. Jones released last week. But New York Central's remaining RFC debt of $11,900,000 was extended to 1941. RFC will receive the same interest as the banks (currently 4%), and while the bank loans are still on a demand basis, the RFC loans become payable if New York Central ever defaults. Furthermore, Mr. Vanderbilt tried to patch up his spat with the RFChairman by writing: "Please accept our sincere thanks for the co-operative spirit which you have evinced in reaching a final and permanent...