Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inflation. He is unable to understand the repugnance felt by all social classes in France to the attitude of financial drifting which would lead to inflation. But action is necessary. "Let us not forget that since April, 1932, successive governments have solicited 32,000,000,000 francs in new bond issues. We cannot continue to live like privledged sons on borrowed money...
...Chase, 45, bridge engineer, partner of famed Bridgebuilder Ralph Modjeski; when, rocked by a gust of wind, he lost his balance and fell 120 ft. from the Delaware River Bridge; in Philadelphia. Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease...
Today long-term credit is scarce. The bond market is at a standstill. Capital funds are being husbanded in banks and financial institutions earning a neglible rate of interest on short term securities, but this is considered better than risking money in long-term bonds when the policies of the government about repayment in cheaper dollars later on have not been clarified and when inflation talk still disturbs public confidence...
Chief Tshekedi, backed by a corps of lawyers, argued his case most fluently, adding considerably to the brilliance of the scene by appearing throughout the trial in a pair of pink-striped pajamas from Bond Street. The hero of the Antarctic mopped his brow under the withered fig-tree and gave judgment: 1) Lewd Phineas was banished from Bechuanaland forever. 2) For daring to punish a white man, Chief Tshekedi was removed from the Bamangwato tribe, exiled from his tribal lands. Admiral Evans pronounced the verdict on Chief Tshekedi as sympathetically as possible...
...Sweringen. Their Chesapeake Corp., which holds 3,826,000 shares of C. & 0. stock, will therefore get $1,140,000 more in dividends. If the value of Chesapeake Corp. stock rises it will benefit their Alleghany Corp. whose assets are now impounded by the trustee of its bond issues. Alleghany's assets include Chesapeake Corp. stock and if Alleghany's assets rise to 150% of the par value of Alleghany's bonds, the income from the impounded assets will be freed to pay charges on other Alleghany Corp. obligations falling due in October. The Van Sweringens...