Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trois. Funds for manipulation in stabilizing the franc to be drawn from: 1) An elaborate revision of French taxes calculated to produce three billion francs of new revenue. 2) Negotiation of international credit...
Significance. Dr. Zimmermann's restrained allusion to the almost insuperable political difficulties which beset him in Austria does him credit. It was his thankless task to discharge 100,000 superfluous Government employes, as rapacious a band of entrenched bureaucrats as were ever left over from an overturned monarchial regime. Naturally, Dr. Zimmermann has remained, since that heroic and salutary pruning action, one of the best hated men in Austria; a symbol to the unstable and irresponsible factions in the Austrian Parliament of all that is abhorrent to scheming politicians. That the good Doctor's staunch inflexible Dutch honesty...
Look Out for Credit. . . . When it's cheap, it's dangerous.-E. T. Stotesbury, (Philadelphia member of J. P. Morgan...
...seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there was Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of Naturalist Seton, who exhibited a rifle "that already has to its credit a 1,000-lb. moose, an 800-lb. bear, an antelope shot running at 90 ft. and a wapiti...
...perhaps pardonable to mistake for an abiding spirituality that enlightened fear which secures credit and maintains the sanctity of contract. One might even pass over the intrepidity of an attempted explanation of American economic history in terms of a mysterious religious instinct that inheres in residence on this continent. But the unabashed hardihood of justifying the whole past and present of American industrialism by making it one with the deepest spiritual feelings of the people--especially at a time when that industrialism has just flowered in one of the most insidious assaults on democratic government that our history records--ought...