Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Mr. Curtis makes his home in an eleven-room suite at the swanky Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue. Ordinary tenants would have to pay $150 per day for these quarters; the Vice President gets them for $5.53. The Mayflower is controlled by the American Bond & Mortgage Co. of which short, stout, thick-necked William J. Moore, 65, is president.* Since last autumn the Department of Justice has been investigating American Bond & Mortgage. Thousands of investors have complained that this company gobbled up their money, returned them nothing. Charges have been made in court that Mr. Moore had a technique...
Floyd B. Odium of Electric Bond & Share, just back from Rumania, said arbitration is a good solution to international trade difficulties...
...enlightened on this subject and feel sure that I will receive a real unbiased answer from your staff. I cannot believe that this problem has not been solved, but would like to know, inasmuch as I am a tax payer in Los Angeles, which city is contemplating a large bond issue to construct an aqueduct to bring some of the Boulder Dam water to Los Angeles...
...farmer's creditor has tried to seize his seed loan while it lay on deposit in his bank. Last week the Treasury was astir with plans and proposals for handling a deficit which threatened to repeat itself next year. Secretary Mellon announced an $800,000,000 18-year bond issue at 3⅛%. Its size was the largest, its interest rate the lowest since the War. The purpose of this long-term issue was less to give the Government more operating cash than it was to pay off $589,314,000 in short-term debts due June...
Newfoundland's Mere $8,000,000. Because the Government of Newfoundland, "Oldest British Colony," has been unable to find buyers for an $8,000,000 bond issue, harassed Premier Sir Richard Squires raised money last week by selling Labrador to "European interests": such was a Wall Street rumor that jolted the British Empire...