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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will let banks have six-month money at 3%, provided they pass it on at 5% to NRA-ers. The 2% bank profit was expected to supply the necessary incentive. For collateral, R. F. C. will accept merchants' and manufacturers' notes on products, raw materials, plant equipment, any odds & ends not already mortgaged. The loans are to be used chiefly to finance higher payrolls until buying orders catch up with NRA wages. Such lendings will put R. F. C. into direct competition with the Federal Reserve system as a discount agency. Declared R. F. C. Chairman Jesse Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Next? | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...horns of Cuba's dilemma last week were the two terra cotta towers of Havana's elaborate Hotel National. There 400 army and navy officers who refused to accept the student-supported government of President Ramon Grau San Martin, some in undershirts, some in crumpled linen suits but all with thumping big pistols at their waists, were marooned, peeling their own potatoes, running the elevators, making the beds. The guests, including U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, had departed. So had the staff, with the exception of two managers who felt a mariner's duty to stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Los Ninos | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...backs and directs the government of President Grau San Martin. Hour after hour last week the Students' Directorate sat in conference arguing, gesticulating, issuing orders for the Grau San Martin Cabinet to put into effect. Nobody questioned their patriotism or their sincerity. They served without pay, swore to accept no government posts, but it was as though the Social Problems Club of Columbia University had taken over the U. S. Government and was telling a puppet cabinet what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Los Ninos | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...third of the electorate, demanding the end of the Dollfuss dictatorship and a convocation of Parliament. To control Parliament or to ignore it. Chancellor Dollfuss last week had three choices. The first and, to him. the worst was to take into the Government some Nazi leader willing to accept the principle of absolute Austrian independence. The second was to abandon the Austrian Constitution and form a Fascist State on the Italian model. This would get the support of the Catholics and the Heimwehr whose leader Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg last week returned from a visit to Benito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: What a Conflict! | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs upon his bank. ... Is there any depositor who would not accept one-half of 1% less interest and know his deposit was insured? ... It is my firm opinion that the insurance feature of the law will save millions to our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bankers Without Fun | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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