Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Watson flayed President Roosevelt for abandoning the gold standard, for trifling with the currency, for scaring off private credit, for unleashing a Blue Eagle "boycott," for concealing Budget deficits by "double bookkeeping." Cried...
...nearly two weeks." said his announcement, "by letter and by telegram, by resolution and personal appeal, I have been asked to be a candidate for Mayor. . . . One and all protested against a leadership that has shattered the city's credit and made the people of this city bow their heads - an arrogant leadership of stupidity and corruption, unmatched since the days of Boss Tweed. . . . There is no real Fusion in this campaign. The so-called Fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of our Republican citizenry as he is to the vast army of Democrats...
Latest statistics show that yen in circulation have slightly decreased since the Empire went off gold nearly two years ago. There has been of course an orgy of Japanese credit inflation, sponsored by "Daruma" Takahashi as the only means of paying Japan's war bills. Last week he sharply criticized only one point of President Roosevelt's recovery policy, the shortening of working hours under the NRA. To 78-year-old and frankly old-fashioned Korekiyo Takahashi this is nonsense. "What any nation needs now," he snapped, "is more work, not less work...
...Emperor" Batista, who had gotten much personal credit for his soldiers' anti-Red foray, was again man of the hour. Correspondents reported strong talk of an Army coup against President Grau. While visiting the wounded next day in his automobile the President was shot at by snipers whose bullets struck his convoy...
...city's credit being at dead low ebb, Mayor O'Brien badly needed the bankers' goodwill. Governor Lehman's pressure was gentle but firm. And this interesting item came to light: Among Counsel Samuel Untermyer's realty investments is a second mortgage of $2,050,000 on No. 42 Broadway, recorded in the names of two sons, Alvin and Irwin. No. 42's tenants include such big brokerages as DeCoppet & Doremus, J. S. Bache & Co., Hornblower & Weeks, Logan & Bryan...