Word: bond
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class of 1920 at Yale has decided to purchase a $1000 Liberty Bond. This sum is to be raised partly from the surplus fund in the class treasury and partly from subscriptions from individual members of the class...
...Take such an amount of bonds as you may reasonably expect to be able to pay for while the proceeds of the loan are being expended. This is entirely possible, since the bonds may be paid for on the instalment plan, and liberal borrowing facilities are available to all subscribers at the banks. The borrowing which this method of subscribing to the loan involves will not occasion serious credit inflation if the loans are liquidated about as fast as the proceeds of the bond issue are expended by the Government...
While there is no possibility of the national bond issue failing, since the temper of our people is what it is, yet it rests on each man to see that he measures up to the temper of his people. It is the rule of democracies that what is everybody's business is nobody's business; and the overwhelming success of the Liberty Loan being in strong measure everybody's business, there is always the possibility that each individual will leave the task of successfully concluding that business to the indeterminate "public...
...bond committee is hoping to obtain many small subscribers in Cambridge to swell the total throughout the country. There were 8,000,000 subscribers to the last British loan of $5,000,000,000, or a ratio of one in six, and the British are proud that their record was superior to that of the Germans of whom one in ten subscribed to their most recent issue. In contrast to these records is that of the United States in the Spanish War when there were only 325,000 bond purchasers, or one in 256, to the small loan...
Coincident with the campaign being organized in the University for subscriptions to the Liberty Bond, similar plans are being launched at Yale. A Liberty War Loan Committee has been appointed and the week of June 4th set aside as a special period for canvassing. To increase the opportunities of the Yale Faculty for participation in the loan, a plan has been arranged by which payments may be deducted from salaries...