Word: cash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like the Patman Bill, the Vinson Bill calls for full and immediate cash payment of the Bonus, plus remission of interest on the $1,500,000,000 veterans have borrowed on their certificates since 1031. Unlike the Patman Bill, which specifies payment by a new issue of currency, the Vinson Bill offers no method of financing...
...playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work as cash boy in a Charleston department store. Six months later he got a job as messenger with the Southern Railway, eking out his $8-per-month wage with tips and newspaper-selling at night. After seven years his salary was $35 per month. Meantime he had learned shorthand and typing, got a schooling...
Prospect Roosevelt: But suppose I want to cash my bond before that? Suppose I need the money in a hurry...
...sentence for mail fraud. In liquidating the confusion which they soon discovered, receivers tried to sell the 447-ft. Foshay Tower not once, not twice, not thrice but 26 times. Only once was there a bidder for the tallest building in Minneapolis-a jobless man who offered $1 spot cash. Last week on the 27th attempt, the Foshay Tower was finally sold to a group of bondholders for an unrevealed price...
...weathervane? It would be natural to expect that it will turn in whichever way the vocal wind blows strongest. But necessity probably will intervene and rust the vano so that it will point for some time in a "sound money" direction, for the support of 22 million people requires cash, and much...