Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud of having negotiated these tariff treaties, few New Dealers envied him his Minneapolis job, because the reciprocal trade agreements are admittedly unpopular along the Canadian border. NRA, AAA, WPA, PWA, the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Guffey Coal Act, the Social Security Act have given or promised cash or privileges to some particular group of voters. But trade reciprocity depends on the abolition of privileges, and few of its beneficiaries are aware of their benefits. Steel workers never know what portion of their pay comes from steel that goes into automobiles and machinery sold overseas. Farmers do not know...
...birthplace of the late great Radical Eugene V. Debs and scene last year of a general strike, Police Chief James C. Yates announced that Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder would not be allowed to make a scheduled campaign speech in the city. In Chicago, proceeding without delay to cash in on the publicity and sympathy sure to accrue from such tactics, the No. 1 U. S. Red flashed off telegrams to President Roosevelt and Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt protesting violation of "the most elementary democratic principles," swiftly entrained for Terre Haute. Chief Yates did not disappoint...
Professionals. Played informally as early as 1895, organized professional football really began to flourish in 1925, when famed C. C. ("Cash & Carry") Pyle signed famed Illinois Halfback Harold ("Red") Grange to play for pay. Last year, a million people paid more than $1,000,000 to see the 54 games played by the nine teams of the National League, No. 1 organization of the game. This season professional football has two major leagues, named after baseball's. Leaders of the six teams in the American League last week were the Boston Shamrocks. In the National League, the Chicago Bears...
...petition for voluntary bankruptcy contested in Atlantic City, N. J. by skeptical creditors (TIME, Sept. 7), onetime film Panjandrum William Fox, who claims he has to borrow cash to live on, explained: "As of Jan. 1, 1930, I was under the impression I was worth about $100,000,000. . . . But I found soon afterward I had estimated wrong...
...long banana haul across Guatemala by buying ten new locomotives and 300 banana cars according to the railroad's specifications. It would, furthermore, guarantee the railroad favorable terms on road ballast from mines in its control. Finally, it would pay International Railways $2,165,000 in cash, receiving in return 20-year notes for $1,750,000 and 185,000 new common shares (it already owned 80,000), thus acquiring an approximate 31% interest in the road...