Word: creditable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your magizine is always printing letters condeming His Excelency Herr Hitler. I don't do much writing, but I could not help voicing my disagrement. I give great Hitler credit for doing what the Kaisar did not complete. Hitler has made himself the king of Europe by proving to the world that France and England are cowards...
Fortnight ago the U. S. Export-Import Bank granted China $25,000,000 worth of credit for the purchase of American agricultural implements and machinery. Prompt use of this credit was made last week when China purchased 1,000 trucks from Chrysler and General Motors which could be used to carry Russian supplies over her new motor road from Siberia...
...Tokyo, sleepy-eyed Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita meanwhile had told foreign correspondents that this extension of credit was a "regrettable act," and, if a political gesture against Japan, "most dangerous." Summoned to meet at Peking last week were the heads of the puppet Governments of Peking and Nanking and the "provisional" Governments of Hankow and Canton. One of the purposes of the meeting was to teach the puppets a politico-economic trick that has already been successfully employed by Japan in Manchukuo. Japan would formulate, the puppets promulgate, trade rules discriminating against other nations. Thus Japan will be able...
...high Shavian wit is Androcles entertaining, but for low Shavian tom-foolery-particularly near the end when the play bursts its buttons, when Ferrovius licks all the gladiators in sight, when Androcles waltzes with the lion, when Caesar is chased by it, claims the credit for taming it, orders everybody to turn Christian. Such high jinks do not make one wonder what Shaw "means" by it all; they make one wonder whether he may not have had a hand in Hellzapoppin...
...introduced to Julian F. Thompson, who worked for Bond & Goodwin, Inc., New York investment house. Mr. Thompson looked over Girard & Co.'s books and found them showing such good profit that he did not bother to investigate Mr. Coster personally before arranging additional bank credit for Girard & Co. Next year he helped Coster borrow from Connecticut bankers $1,000,000 with which Coster bought the 105-year-old drug firm of McKesson & Robbins...