Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the bill's passage. The slashing attack upon it by a dogged minority was wasted effort from the start. Pennsylvania's Reed for the Republican opposition excoriated the stabilization fund and the power given the Secretary of the Treasury to use it to "stabilize" the government bond market: "It is that dishonest thing, creating an artificial market. . . . When a banker does it we cry 'Jail him!' When the Administration does it we say it's praiseworthy." Delaware's Hastings, using no nicer words, denounced seizure of the Reserve Banks' gold as "legalized...
...State of Kansas last week celebrated "Kansas Day" by bringing three of her high State officials to trial. Tom B. Boyd, former State Treasurer, was convicted by a jury of illegally removing $260,000 of bonds from the State Treasury in connection with the Finney bond forgery scandal (TIME, Aug. 21, et seq.). Roland Boynton, Attorney General, impeached before the House, was acquitted by the State Senate of having conspired with Finney, and of having failed properly to investigate irregularities. When Kansas Day passed the case of Will J. French, State Auditor, also impeached as a result of the Finney...
...nodding and polished helmets glittering, mounted patrols of the Garde Republicaine moved slowly up & down the boulevards. Citizens screamed "Down with the Stavisky Cabinet!"-though in fact M. Camille Chautemps was Premier and no one charged him personally with having anything to do with the $30,000,000 pawnshop bond swindle of "Handsome Alex" Stavisky who died with a bullet through his brain at Chamonix when his rascality and bribery of Deputies and officials were unmasked (TIME...
...daring to antagonize Cubans too much by returning at once the properties of Electric Bond & Share's Cuban Electric Co. which ex-President Grau seized and by canceling his 45% rate cut, President Mendieta announced that these matters will be arbitrated...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...