Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Property (coauthor: Gardiner C. Means) is an economic bible of the Roosevelt Administration. As the President's advance agent on railroad policy, he went about addressing groups of oldtime railroad executives who were often rubbed the wrong way by his didactic manner. He believes in such things as credit for consumption instead of production, collectivization of industry, public responsibility of private business...
...attention 27 years ago in Paris. In the streets of Tiflis in the Caucasus an armored truck of the Russian Imperial Bank had just been held up by a hard-eyed young revolutionary, later to be known as Josef Stalin. Pudgy Comrade Litvinov appeared at a window of the Credit Lyonnais in Paris with a sheaf of 500-ruble notes recognized as part of the Tiflis loot. Litvinov escaped to Britain after convincing French Republicans that the bank robbery was a political not a criminal act. In Britain he became a traveling salesman and married Ivy Low, niece...
...Altering the Federal Reserve Act to make possible increasing the requirements of bank reserves in times of credit inflation...
...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
...survey or rapid review of the elements of French it is unexcelled. It may be taken by students who wish to brush up on the language for one course credit. Although the daily classes are necessarily tedious, the personality of the instructor does a great deal to relieve the grind...