Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Realistically viewed, the Reparations and War Debts situation rests on a foundation far broader than mere statecraft. Pressure upon the U. S. (if it is exerted); scurvy tricks (if they are played at the World Economic Conference); the refusal of the U. S. Congress to cancel another cent (if it refuses)?none of these things alter what are probably the paramount facts: 11 that the U. S. will not fight to collect from the Allies; 2) that the Allies will pay the U. S. proportionately no more than they receive from Germany*; 3) that the German people believe they...
Give up Colonies? Assistant U. S. Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. officially stated that ''the American Government is pleased," but Congressmen & Senators who spoke out on the Lausanne settlement last week mostly spoke against cancelling another cent of the nine billions which Europe owes the U. S. in War Debts. Such potent voices as those of Senator Borah (Rep.) and Senator Glass (Dem.) were not heard last week. The Senate tabled and ignored a resolution by Oklahoma's Thomas Pryor Gore (Dem.) demanding whether "the European Powers which are indebted to the United States...
...secretly agreeing to cancellation of a great part of what Europe owes the U. S. in return for European adoption of his disarmament proposals. If there was such a "gentleman's agreement" last week it is invalid. Congress has tied the Administration's hands, explicitly forbidding cancellation of another cent (TIME, Dec. 3) Congress might reverse itself, but public opinion throughout Europe seemed firmly and dangerously credulous of the "gentleman's agreement...
Block Aid. How did it happen that Mayor Walker shared a joint stock-trading account with Newspaper Publisher Paul Block from which, in 1927-29, the Mayor withdrew profits of $246,692 without having invested a cent...
...This survey, made by the Bureau in cooperation with the National Retail Dry Goods Association, covered reports from 521 firms which operated 675 stores and had total sales last year of more than $1,300,000,000, which is estimated to be approximately 25 per cent of the total sales of department and specialty stores in the United States...