Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George V. "The last year has been such a terribly sad one for me," wrote the 26-year-old princess. "It almost seems strange that any kind of happiness could come into my life again. But Georgie is such a dear. The great sorrow we shared has made our bond a union that nothing can break...
...would be asked to approve an increase in authorized common stock from some 7,500,000 to 12,500,000, thereby potentially capitalizing the company at $1,250,000,000. From new stock to be issued at terms to be fixed, cash will be received to redeem all the bonds of the parent company. Thus Steel common becomes "as good as a bond," which was the astoundingly imaginative ambition of Steel's Creator Morgan...
Thus the Iron Man craftily raised the slumbering issue of whether U. S. holders of German bonds or the allied powers would have first claim upon the resources of the Reich. From the standpoint of the U. S. and Germany-and from their standpoint alone-the payments of both bond and reparations indebtedness are of approximately equal importance. The allied governments could watch Germany default on her U. S. bonds with relative unconcern; but any representative of U. S. interests must take care that the whole burden imposed on Germany is not too heavy for her to bear-even...
...major purpose of commercialization would be to transform the political debts of Germany to the powers into purely business debts to individuals. Then if by any chance Germany should go bankrupt or bolshevik, the bond salesmen would have made their commissions, the Great Powers would have their money, and only the individuals who bought bonds would be out of pocket. Though the roulette wheel of peoples and politics spins and spins-red or black the bank will...
...Loyalty to the British Crown is the only thing that forms a bond between Hindu and Moslem, Brahmin and non-Brahmin, Punjabi and Madrassi, British India and Indian States. Destroy that, and you have, by violating the most cherished sentiment of millions, erected an enduring and inseparable barrier to the achievement of a free Indian nationhood! "I can feel no doubt that this demand for independence must do an irreparable injury to India's cause, and sadden the hearts of the wiser of India's sons and friends...