Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Senators were thus contesting with the President the question of who should be generous, Representatives were likewise seeking credit for generosity. First house bill introduced in the current congress was Texas' Wright Patman's perennial measure to pay the soldiers' bonus in cash at once. This form of generosity involved $2,400,000,000, not from cash on hand, but in greenbacks. The Ways & Means Committee allowed the bill to lie fallow because 1) the House, as it did during the last Congress, would pass it if it got a chance; 2) the Administration, busy borrowing...
...minutes later there were 144 signatures. Representative Isabella Greenway of Arizona, wearing a garnet colored sports dress and a red scarf, wandered in and sat down. Immediately several Representatives went to her, proposed that she take the credit of being the 145th. She pounded a small determined fist on the arm of her chair, said, no, she would not do it for any amount of publicity. A minute or two later, Representative Roy E. Ayres, 200-lb. Congressman from Lewiston. Mont, who has never made a speech in the House, claimed the honor, signed. He was so excited that...
Closest question in the poll: For the view that the present trend is toward dangerous inflation of money, 51.4%; for the view that the present trend is toward dangerous inflation of credit...
...this had a profound effect on the various nations which so loudly deplored the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. France was expected to recognize Ta Manchu Tikuo, was offering Japan a 15-year credit for locomotives, rails, other equipment for the South Manchuria Railway. Germany longed to do likewise, but refrained from a definite commitment until the Nazi Government could decide whether it would make more money by recognizing Ta Manchu Tikuo than it would lose by insulting the Nationalist Government of China. Even the U. S., most outspoken under the Hoover regime in its criticism of Japan's Manchurian...
Keep on asking why construction which creates a basis of material credit, still creates a monetary or book keeping DEBT...