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Word: cashes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Pittman's Isolationist foes were annoyed at the isolationism of the Pittman bill. But they found one good target-the fact that the bill was credit-and-carry, not cash-and-carry. They shouted that this would modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Phantoms | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...much doubt as to how Princeton men feel about the war: we are naturally biased in favor of the Allies." Meanwhile at Vassar College, in the Miscellany, Editor Nancy Mclnerney of South Bend, Ind., spoke for young womanhood: "We don't want our husbands shot. We favor the cash-and-carry act because it is more neutral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aye or Nay? | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week came a play of Pagan's own and with it the clue to how he wangled his cash. Pagan's To the End of Time proved to be a lashing attack on John L. Lewis. Called John Steele in the play and portrayed as a scoundrel, he dies in Act II, goes to Heaven only long enough to be lambasted, then is booted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Selling Point | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Dividends of eight per cent on charge purchases and ten per cent on cash purchases for the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1939 were voted yesterday at the annual meeting of the Harvard Cooperative Society. At the same time directors were elected for the current year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COOP MEMBERS VOTED 10 PER CENT DIVIDEND | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

...doubts that alteration of the Johnson Act, which prohibits leans to defaulter nations, would affect our trade with Britain. "I think she probably has ample resources to pay in cash for all of the goods she will need to buy from us," he stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO BOOM IN EMBARGO REPEAL---HANSEN | 10/5/1939 | See Source »

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