Word: canceling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suddenly that Anglo-Persian Board Chairman Sir John Cadman was not in London to receive the blow but in San Francisco. To California newshawks, long-jawed Sir John said with perfect aplomb. "All this is not so serious as it might appear, inasmuch as Persia lacks power to cancel the concession...
...home again, he said he would cancel his Princeton engagement if the visa was not issued in 24 hours...
Sirs: Please cancel the subscription of H. Glenn Lewis when it expires. We are disappointed in TIME, in that it is not the non-partisan periodical we had felt the need of, but one using its influence to lead our country into the jeopardy of leadership of a party pledged to the repeal of the 18th Amendment and whose hazardous policies might mean ruin at the present time. . . . MRS. HARRY T. LEWIS...
...getting particularly excited at this time about foreign political debts. Because the dollar is tremendously dear in terms of commodities is no reason, except to hardheaded foreign financiers and governments, and U. S. owners of foreign second mortgages which they hope to make first mortgages, at this time to cancel or readjust these debts to the tune of Depression prices and bankrupt business. So far as prices are concerned, it would seem that in a 62-year swing, foreign countries would have an opportunity to pay their debts at an average price dollar, and no doubt, when things take...
...Among the few securities which have held their own in the current business depression are government bonds. Should the U. S. cancel War Debts the public would be left holding the bag, to the extent of $78 per capita, or would have to pay themselves...