Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boland made every preparation to put the North Dakota firm out of business this time. Representative Boland announced that the Bill would be beaten by at least 50 votes, and Speaker Byrns pooh-poohed self-confidently. On the morning debate began, every Representative received a memorandum from the Farm Credit Administration ripping the Bill from stem to stern. That helped some but House leaders appealed to an even greater political authority. While the Bill was under consideration in Committee of the Whole, Speaker Byrns rose on, the floor and solemnly read a letter "expressing the wishes and hopes of some...
...hours the debate grew more & more bitter as it grew more & more certain that the Frazier-Lemke bill was doomed. Near the end Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite Richard Thompson Buckler turned violently on the bill's opponents: "You big shots will get credit for killing the bill. But you little fellows will just get hell. You will find someone else warming your seats here next year, while you run around begging a ticket...
...effort expended and the results obtained reflect great credit to the University as a whole. Thanksgiving baskets for poor families, Christmas parties for children in Cambridge, work done in boys clubs in Boston, and many other similar activities do immense good and aid many people in times of strain. Phillips Brooks was known for his charitable efforts; members of the Institution which was organized in his memory and bears his name have carried on nobly...
...Credit for the discovery goes to Leslie C. Peltier, garage employee of Delphos, Ohio. One of the world's most distinguished amateur astronomers, Mr. Peltier hereby chalks up the fourth in his string of comet discoveries; his other most recent success was achieved...
...Jersey filed a registration statement for an $85,000,000 issue of 25-year debentures with a 3% coupon-a record low for a long-term industrial bond. Biggest oil company in the U. S. with assets of $1,894,000,000, Standard Oil thus demonstrated that its credit is nearly as good as that of the U. S. Government. One sound reason for that credit rating was revealed at the time the registration was filed: Last year Standard Oil earned $62,800,000, a fat increase over the $45,600,000 reported in 1934 and an astonishing recovery from...