Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicagoans groaned again to think they ever re-elected Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson. Chicago had had no such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
Associated Press. Two resolutions were adopted: 1) to extend special voting rights and protest rights to the entire A. P. membership of 1,200 newspapers; 2) to float a new bond issue of $500,000, of which no member can buy more than $1,000 worth...
...Casey '20 will again be at his post in charge of the first year team and he will be assisted by W. A. Cleary '15 and R. H. Bond...
Results. These bonds are listed in the Exchange in pounds sterling, a ?200 bond being treated as though it were a $1,000 bond. This is no innovation. Yet it does give impetus to the centering of world finance...
Another result is that the way has been made for listing another and greater British security, the ?1,950,000,000 ($9,750,000,000) 5% British war loan. If that is listed it will be the greatest bond issue ever offered to U. S. investors, exceeding by $3,500,000,000 the Fourth Liberty 4¼% loan...