Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shocked were some business men that they found it difficult to credit Mr. Watson's words. For President Coolidge has consistently stood for a policy of "leaving business men alone...
Last year "hundreds of creditors, credit houses, debtors, lawyers, wives and engaged persons of both sexes" stormed the Government tax bureaus. This year a mere handful, five or ten, were i bout all that tax officials in even the largest cities were called upon to satisfy. One hysterical woman searched through eleven volumes of statistics, seeking grounds on which to demand an increase in her alimony. The divorced one, ungallant, defied her; he has filed his returns in another city, dared her to guess its name...
...announced in Manhattan that the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank had granted a credit of $10,000,000, secured by gold to the Bank Polski. The loan is for one year at 4½%. The credit will be used to maintain the zloty on the exchange because Polish currency was recently placed on a gold basis...
...Significance. The species of male vegetable herein exhibited has dragged out its parasitic existence in every garden of genteel society that ever grew. To Author Parrish, great credit for supplying her specimen with logical antecedents, convincing contemporaries and a setting so carefully cultivated that its chokers and crinolines are not only seen and heard but almost smelled...
...More credit to her for never relinquishing, save when artistically imperative, a gay, bubbling spirit that is far to seek these days. The book itself is ripe fruit-juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...