Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Britain, as the price of her original adherence to The Deal, exacted a blank-check promise of armed assistance from France. Later Britain's Prime Minister called The Deal "dead." but the French blank check is still alive and Squire Baldwin has every intention of trying to cash...
...preferred stock has $21.25 dividend accumulation which would cost $16,000,000 to pay up. Though the preferred has no back dividends it is capable at $55 a share and its retirement would require $27,000,000. There are also 13,000,000 shares of common on which no cash dividends have ever been declared. RCA stockholders agreed that their corporation could have found no better name. for their plan than President Roosevelt's friend, Joe Kennedy...
With this preamble, the American Legion's Commander James Raymond ("Ray"') Murphy in person slapped on President Roosevelt's desk last week his Legionaries' legislative demands. No. 1: Bonus cash on the line...
Having frittered away their energies last session in wrangling over whether Bonus cash should be raised by orthodox Treasury methods (Vinson-American Legion bill) or by printing greenbacks (Patman-Veterans of Foreign Wars bill), cash-hungry veterans saw their hopes go glimmering when the Senate by eight votes sustained President Roosevelt's veto of the Patman bill (TIME, June 3). When Legionaries roundly hissed Bonuseer Patman at their convention in St. Louis four months later, the wranglers began to see the light of compromise...
...strongest veto message President Roosevelt might compose. Speaker of the House Joe Byrns put himself on record last week as expecting the Bonus to pass both Houses by Feb. 1. Unofficial wiseacres predicted that within three months War veterans' pockets would jingle with $2,000,000.000 in cash...