Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt would give his moral, if not official, support to one of them. Would the U. S. refuse suspension on Dec. 15 as a preliminary to debt reconsideration? Did any reconsideration necessarily mean a reduction in the $22,000,000,000 the U. S. hoped to collect in half a century? Could the old War Debt Commission be revived, as President Hoover had suggested, to conduct negotiations? Would the debtors default if refused another moratorium? Would such a default set back world recovery? Would a world conference on debts and tariffs, such as Governor Roosevelt had suggested, produce a solution...
Prime statistic: $6 per bbl. tax on beer is still part of the U. S. Internal Revenue law. On an estimated annual consumption of 50,000,000 bbl. (the U. S. drank 61,000,000 before 1919) the Treasury would collect...
...learned last night that within a short time, the committee would collect all the petitions with the signatures attached and present them to the University. Estimates as to the number of men who have signed vary, but members of the committee stated last night that it was close...
...writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
...much should evangelism figure in Christian missions? It should be in a subservient position, says the Commission, critical of the sort of missionaries who merely succeed in impressing a number of individuals, collect scores or hundreds of 'signatures,' count baptisms as so many substantial additions to the Church of Christ; but . . . neither see nor consider the other multitude, the more reflective and morally deeper spirits, who by this spectacle may be set against the Christian movement for the rest of their lives...