Word: converting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit bankers explained the situation to Mr. Ford. Would he convert his deposits into bank stock? He would not. He had never owned any bank stock because banks were not properly run. Would he subscribe to new capital in any other form? Certainly not. His position was on the side of the $500 depositors, not the directors...
After the War, Bufano moved to San Francisco, married, had a child, deserted wife & child to study terra cotta glazing and firing in China. He returned a convert to Oriental philosophy, living entirely on nuts, and set up a studio in the old Hawaiian building, left over from the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. His unworldly attitude soon caused the sheriff of San Francisco to attach all his personal belongings. Nut-eating Beniamino Bufano moved to Paris...
...Percy Jay Fuller, Manhattan stockbroker, was convicted in June 1928 of using the mails to defraud in a scheme to convert garbage to gasoline. Released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last June, New York authorities requested his extradition on a perjury charge connected with the same case. Governor Russell refused on the grounds that Fuller's further prosecution was an attempt to collect a private debt...
Fascism denies . . . the equation that well-being equals happiness. [Such an equation] would convert men into animals thinking of only one thing-of being fed and fattened; reduced, therefore, to a pure and simple vegetable life." Democracy. "Democratic regimes can be defined as those in which, from time to time, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign. . . . Fascism rejects in democracy the absurd, conventional lie of political equality." Bismarck. Seemingly II Duce finds the touchstone of Fascist policy in "Bismarck, who never knew where the house of the Religion of Liberty was and of what prophets it made...
Only real bait offered was a cash bonus of ?1 for every ?100 worth of bonds converted prior to Aug. 1. Obviously to convert was no business transaction. It was a great act of united national patriotism. To put it over all the stops of Wartime propaganda were pulled out. Posters went up on the hoardings, there were placards in Trafalgar Square. Orators spellbound theatre audiences in the intermissions. Newspapers printed honor rolls of firms who had converted all their War Loan Bonds, heaped honors on superpatriots who refused to accept their ?1 cash bonuses. And it worked...