Word: callings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present big national debt (now $38,600,000,000).* It means also that by that year the whole idea of a reserve will be no more than a piece of fancy bookkeeping, for if the Fund wants to spend any of its vast reserve it will have to call on the Government, which in turn will have to raise the money by taxes...
...general impression in London was that Dr. Schacht returned to Berlin at week's end emptyhanded. (His "private visit" had included a secret conference with U. S. Lawyer George Rublee, director of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees.) If Dr. Schacht had any hopes that Britain would call off her trade war with Germany, he must have been disap pointed when the House of Commons unanimously advanced through its second reading a new Export Credits Bill, which raises from $250,000,000 to $375,000,000 the amount of obligations the Government can incur in "insuring foreign trade" and provides...
Newshawks, who had not had such a story in a coon's age, went to Brooklyn to call on a character named George Vernard, who had represented one of Coster's dummy agents and was also wanted by the police. They found a car being packed with luggage outside his door. Police arrived and arrested Mr. Vernard, who admitted that his real name was Arthur Musica. It then came out that George Dietrich was really George Musica and George's brother Robert, who also worked for McKesson & Robbins, was a fourth Musica brother, Robert, never before mentioned...
Promoter of smart shops, smart travel, and now smart hotels, Bernice Bost is a bustling, buxom divorcée. Last fall, when Papal Knight George MacDonald acquired an interest in Henry Doherty's hotel and resort properties, she went to New York, charmed his secretary with a telephone call and a "Dear-Miss-Kindly-Secretary-Whose-Name-I-Do-Not-Know" letter, sold MacDonald on the plan...
...fine spring-fever day in 1929 a high-keyed, hawk-nosed, 28-year-old publisher named George Macy paid a well-plotted call on a Wall Street broker named Jack O. (for nothing) Straus. Publisher Macy was in search of an angel. He outlined for Broker Straus a heavenly publishing scheme: limited editions. "Wait here for me," said Straus. A few minutes later he reappeared, handed Macy a fistful of checks. They were for $1,000 each. To fellow brokers downstairs on the floor of the Stock Exchange he had merely whispered the compelling cantrip of the bulls...