Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor asked management jointly to petition Congress for a $1,000,000,000 Federal bond issue to eliminate grade crossings. Management refused...
...Year's the city treasury found it had only about $13,000,000 in cash on hand and close to $150,000,000 in short term obligations to meet before May 1 when municipal taxes are due. Money could not be raised in the public market where city bonds were selling as low as 78. For a week "Jimmy" Walker went through a series of elaborate political contortions, in an attempt to frighten the bankers with a club called Humanity. Then he calmed himself. And then Thomas William Lamont, Morgan partner, Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank...
...fiscal censor with the idea of bridging the abyss between Big Business and U. S. foreign policy. While it contended that it did not pass on the security or merits of foreign loans, its method of reporting "no objection" diplomatically to them was often construed by bond salesmen as left-handed approval and used accordingly. Severest critic of this State Department policy was irascible little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. He exploded...
...loaning policy? That is the first and all-important question its directors will have to answer. The law gives them wide discretion, only forbidding them from accepting foreign securities. A sample case: a "sick" railroad comes before R. F. C. for help; it must meet a $40,000,000 bond issue within the month or go into receivership; the Railroad Credit Corp. has advanced it $15,000,000 from the increased freight rate pool and taken its last shaky collateral. Will R. F. C. let it have $25,000,000 on nothing more than its promise...
...were L. V. Caldwell, prominent Boston landscape architect; Robert Coe '25, of the Olmstead firm in Brookline; H. V. Hubbard '97, Chairman and Professor of the School of City Planning; and B. W. Pond, Professor and Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture. Following a brief statement by Professor Bond, the judges made a cursory inspection of the plans...