Word: banking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Government has distinctly requested that savings bank accounts be not withdrawn to buy bonds, nor investments sold. It is from the savings of the nation that the issue should be subscribed...
...expression of Harvard's support of the loan could be gained by transferring class treasury accounts into bonds. Those who have contributed to the funds and who are now unable to subscribe individually could feel that they had helped the cause. The transfer of class funds from a Cambridge bank to the U. S. treasury will cause little apprehension...
...Fine Arts; Judge F. J. Swayze '79, of the Supreme Court of New Jersey on the Committee to visit the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Police Commissioner A. Woods '92, of New York, on the Committee to visit Harvard College; F. A. Vanderlip, President of the National City Bank of New York on the Committee on the Division of Education; N. Biddle, of New York City, on the Committee on Economics...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...
...while for the men as yet untrained in case next summer's campaign be both the last one, though I hope it will, and also because it is worth while to do what others are doing." President Lowell compared Germany to a band of brigands who, after robbing the bank and shooting up the town, ask the posse that catches them to arbitrate. He declared that we are not fighting for terms but until the enemy throws up his hands, and that it is the duty of all to help make him throw up his hands...