Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate bill to make direct Government loans to industry. Agitation for such a measure began under the Hoover Administration during the depths of Depression. At that time it seemed radical enough to be killed off with the warning that a political party with a stranglehold on credit to private enterprise could perpetuate itself in power. But small and tame beside other New Deal measures last week looked S. 3487 as amended by the House, with its authorization for the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to lend up to $140,000,000 and RFC to lend...
...France's great credit it must be said also that, except in the Manchurian affair, France has been, for her own best interest, the stanchest supporter of the League. More than that, her Briand was unquestionably the greatest Peace Man of the post-war decade. Today, many a Frenchman is resentful of the fact that Briand's policies did not succeed in conciliating Germany, and while blaming Germany most, he wonders whether the failure was not helped along by the patriotic M. de Wendel...
...Students are warned that they must take the examination in this course with the section with which they are officially enrolled. A student who takes the examination with the wrong section will lose credit for the course...
Dealing with the rise of a little German princess to the position of Empress of all the Russias, "Catherine the Great" is a thoroughly excellent picture. Alexander Korda, whose previous work of note was "Henry VIII," is responsible for the able direction of "Catherine," and to him goes the credit for successfully catching the gaudy brilliance of the "nouveau riche" Russia that was trying to imitate the grandeur of contemporary Europe. Elizabeth Bergner, as has oft been repeated, does a splendid job to produce an absorbing Catherine; and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. also capably handles the Mad Czar Peter, whose throne...
...Treaty of Trianon, by which she made peace with the Airlines and Associated Powers, for bade it. Schneider-Creusot, however, was above treaties. Hungary got the money with which to place a large order with Skoda, the Schneider-Creusot subsidiary in Czechoslovakia--got it through the Banquet General de Credit Hongrois; Which in turn is financed by the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne, of which Eugene Schnelder is a director. Thus it was that Schneider contrived once again to circumvent his government and rearm a nation that France had spend blood and treasure in the attempt to disarm...