Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money is moving into industry from this source due not only to restrictions on loans but also to a psychology which tends to discourage investment in improvements and betterments. It is a strange but significant fact that we are living in an age when any reputable citizen can borrow money with which to buy an automobile but cannot borrow money with which to buy or build a home...
...Federal agent testified that the Bishop had told him: that in December 1928, the Bishop "found himself in somewhat of a hole," went to a Richmond bank to borrow money, while there looked into a safe deposit box, found $5,000 in cash that he had "forgotten...
Only three things bring a Haitian President to the U. S.: 1) to borrow money; 2) to get the U. S. marines out of Haiti; 3) to have U. S. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs, Sidney De La Rue, withdrawn. Haiti is in no immediate need of a loan and her public debt has been reduced $9,684,536 in eight years. The last U. S. marine will be withdrawn from Haiti by Nov. 1 and the policing of the Caribbean republic by the U. S. trained Garde d'Haiti will have commenced 30 days before. That...
...seems to be almost a deliberate attempt to misunderstand the new ideas of penology." This remark closely followed by another, that, "Prisons appear to be the biggest, shiniest target in the world. Anything that goes wrong is fair meat for almost anybody. A penologist's life, if I may borrow from Gilbert and Sullivan, is not a happy one." And again that "if prisons exist for the sole purpose of being agreeable, then the best citizens ought to be in them. If they exist in order to be primarily disagreeable, then we should certainly fire Mr. Gill. That, however...
...course be possible always to get loans of the excellence of the American Metal Company, but it is believed that some high grade companies would rather borrow two-year money from commercial banks and take up the question of refunding through investment bankers later than take chances on the Securities...