Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his $25,000 a year salary (biggest of any Governor), with a $390,000,000 State debt (biggest of any state), but with the State credit boastfully asserted to be better than that of the U. S. Government, Governor Lehman may well be the envy of his 47 colleagues. But he is not short on State worries. The number of people on relief in New York is around 2,000,000, more people than there are in Connecticut or Kansas, or Florida or Nebraska. In 1935 Governor Lehman will need about $100,000,000 of new taxes to balance...
...average police officer is an oldtime roundsman. Most D. O. I. men are college graduates. Jealousies and mutual mistrusts sprang up between local and Federal agencies. Local officers felt that they worked up a case only to have the "G men" step in and steal all credit for the catch...
Grant should have full credit, says Mc-Cormick, for the conception and execution of the 1864 campaign that ended the Civil War—"the most comprehensive campaign of all time." His plan included Sherman's March to the Sea, the destruction of Hood's army in Tennessee. As commander-in-chief of the Army of the Potomac, he had to fight not only the redoubtable Lee but his own inefficient, stupid or untrustworthy lieutenants. Only two of Grant's generals whom Biographer McCormick praises are Sherman and Sheridan: Sherman was a good tactician but a poor fighter...
...Control of Credit in the Federal Reserve System," Professor Williams, Emerson...
...During the year the bank had bid for or subscribed to no less than $1,396,000,000 of long-term and short-term Government issues, for its own and its customers' accounts. Summing up the experience of bankers big & little. Chairman Baker remarked: "With the small demand for credit from our customers, it was necessary to invest a greater amount in securities...