Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States may acquire the excess from the Federal Reserve Banks by using the taxing power. This excess gold or gold profit would be used by the Federal Government as a basis for the issuance of currency notes with which to help retire public debt or as a means of credit expansion for the benefit of American industry requiring capital loans...
...getting organized. Day after the ceremony in the Oval Room of the White House, the directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce solemnly adopted a resolution urging a speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them." He admitted that the Administration was "guilty...
When her Five-Year Plan was at its highest tempo, the Soviet Union bought $114,000,000 from the U. S. in 1930, tapered off last year to $12,000,000, partly because the German Government offered easier credit terms. Last week Administration officials spoke of Soviet purchases from the U. S. to total $350,000,000 within the next twelvemonth, but several Republican Senators plaintively urged caution. "I have no objection to recognition," said Pennsylvania's Reed, "if it does not call for the lending of money to the Soviet Union by any [U. S.] Government agency...
...into four time zones-Eastern, Central, Mountain. Pacific-one hour apart and spaced by meridians 15° apart in longitude. By then the Dowd idea had been turned over to William F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association, and to him has gone most of the credit for Standard Time in the U. S. Dr. Dowd saw most of the credit for dividing the whole world into 24 time zones go to Sir Sandford Fleming, a Canadian railway engineer and university chancellor. As a final irony. Dr. Dowd was killed in a grade-crossing accident...
...reading knowledge of one of these languages, and of the other before the end of the Freshman year. In order to discourage the practice of leaving the mastery of one of these languages to the Freshman year, those taking elementary language courses under such conditions might be awarded half-credit only...