Word: credited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What a great thing it would be if we could persuade the nations of the world to abandon the submarine for warfare! I think it must be said to the credit of this country that such a proposal was made years ago by Britain, but it has not been possible to achieve international agreement on the matter...
...chunky, white-chinned Raymond Poincare, Prime Minister of France, stepped quickly to the rostrum, of the Chamber of Deputies last week. It was his final chance to convince the truculent Chamber that they must ratify the Mellon- Berenger debt agreement, a matter upon which not only France's commercial credit but the future of the Poincare government depended. M. Poincare's step was confident. Since the Chamber adjourned the week before a new weapon, a new persuader, had come into his hands. Philip Snowden, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, had announced that if France paid...
...could. at the same time refusing to answer many an investigating question and showing few symptoms of real cooperation. Investigators for Irving Trust Co., receivers, quickly discovered that the listed assets of the bank had little meaning. There were bad bonds, bad oil stocks, bad loans. There was a credit of $840,000 against the New York Port Terminal Co., a company which was said not to be operating, if it had ever been formed. Also the brothers had apparently borrowed $404,-995 from their own bank. Thus while Clarke Bros, claimed assets of $5,852-377, the actual value...
...mills. He knows about New York because in the winter he functions there as pastor of the Marble Collegiate Reformed Church. About Pittsburgh he learned while collaborating with Bishop Francis John McConnell on the Steel Report Committee of the Interchurch World Movement in 1912, a committee which shares the credit for getting the steel laborers' workday cut from twelve hours to eight. During the War he served with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, still suffers occasionally from a gassing there received. Lately he was elected President of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America...
...signature attached to some contributed verses he printed in early April, entitled "To a wife about to start on a shopping tour." The last stanza read: So when you dare declare to me You will not buy a hat Today-yon lie and know you lie!-I will not credit that! The signature was: "WILFRED J. FUNK...