Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispel the doubts and fears which paralyze business and prevent recovery. By promising to balance the budget in the near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been one of the fundamental causes of British recovery...
...story," said Acting sheriff Joseph M. McElroy when the above statement was referred to: "and I have invited the constituents of Robart to visit the 'bastille' to check his accusation. So far I have had no visitors. But come right down and see for yourself why we received the credit we did on the official reports...
...EPIC, made no commitments as to the Sinclair proposals for land colonies, scrip, bond issues, high income taxes or pensions. EPIC was emasculated save for pledges to put the unemployed to work at productive labor, enabling them to produce what they could consume; to put the State's credit and resources behind cooperative self-help groups; to exempt from taxation the first $1,000 assessed valuation of homes and farms occupied by owners; to repeal the State sales tax, substituting income and increased bank and inheritance taxes. Having done the best they could to make EPIC palatable...
...definite end to the decline in production and the slow, steady expansion of credit were heartening, but the most impressive business news continued to dwell on the way John Citizen was crowding the counters of the nation's stores. Chain-store sales were running 13% above last year, department store sales in some cities were up as much as 35%. September mail order sales were up 42%. It took no statistical microscope to perceive that the long downward sweep of the business curve had, at last, a little upward hook...
...favorite mother of corporations. Today it is Delaware, whose charters permit a corporation to do about anything it wants except overthrow the government. Even New Dealers scurry up to Wilmington to charter pseudo-governmental agencies like Electric Home & Farm Authority, U. S. Public Works Emergency Housing Corp., Commodity Credit Corp., Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corp...