Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Thomas-for-President Club heartily deplores and condemns the prevalent un-American tendency to brand all new doctrines seditions and to brand as traitors all leaders of new thought. Among institutions which existed for many years were chattel slavery, feudalism, and Tsarist regime in Russia, among the advocates of new political systems have been Jesus Christ, Washington and Lincoln. His fellow citizens demand to know how Benjamin Gitlow has merited jail, and why he has been held incommunicando...
...discount the promissory notes of Ford motor car buyers, as General Motors Acceptance Corp. has discounted billions of dollars of G. M. C.-made cars, Detroit bankers were busy last week organizing the Universal Finance Co. It will get its chattel money from and through the Guardian Trust Co. of Detroit and its affiliated Guardian Detroit Bank (in Detroit) and Guardian Detroit Co. (security house in Manhattan). Among directors of the Guardian Trust of Detroit are potent motor car makers...
...Morris Plan of Banking and Credits" is a system designed to fill in the gap between commercial banks and chattel loan sharks, by which loans are made for amounts large or small, secured by promissory notes signed not only by the borrower but by two "co-makers" equally responsible with him. Repayment is made at the rate of $1 a week for each $50 borrowed until the note is paid. Arthur J. Morris, originator of the plan, is a crippled Presbyterian Jew who sells out his interest in the banks as they are organized, yet still speaks of them...
...significance lies, not especially in a general distrust of European government bonds, but rather in the spreading reluctance of chattel and security holders against expanding their credit obligations. In accordance with this picture, loans and discounts of Federal Reserve member banks continued to decline...
...constituents, are to decide whether the Prince Albert seat in the House of Commons is a chattel to be passed from hand to hand at the whim of a chosen few, or whether the electors themselves are to have a voice as to who shall represent them at Ottawa. You are to decide whether the ballot is to be loaded so that the Liberal candidate is presented on the ballot with all his rank and title while the Independent candidate is robbed of the Military Cross which he won in France...