Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal triumph. Cried he: "Mr. Speaker, I rise to give thanks! When this bill becomes law, it will be a new charter in human liberty which the people have gotten heretofore only through bloodshed. . . . The provisions of the measure will be carried out in a manner which will do credit to the American people as well as to the Filipinos. . . . Patriotic Filipinos can ill begrudge the hardships that may be occasioned, knowing full well that liberty has always entailed great burdens and responsibilities. . . . I'm happy and I'm grateful. I envision for my people a future grander...
Wall Streeters were telling each other the above story last week as a joke, a puzzler. But in several places throughout the land businessmen were seriously experimenting with new kinds of money to lubricate their local credit systems. In 140 communities in 29 states, 1.000,000 citizens were solving their problems notably through the use of scrip and the foundation of barter associations. Examples...
...only is Premier Hertzog a rock-ribbed gold standard man but he also hates credit inflation of every sort. "The purchase of a motor car on credit," said he in prosperous 1929, "has become the greatest danger to society. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination to farmers as the motor car evil...
...corporations as Cosach have been notably smoothed by U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson who lately flew from Santiago to Washington to give the State Department pointers on the incoming Chilean regime. In Santiago, to which Mr. Culbertson will soon fly back, U. S. residents give him credit for establishing in three parts of the Capital strategic bases stocked with food and other useful things to which members of the U. S. colony could have fled and taken refuge had the series of Chilean revolutions grown too warm...
...populace seems to be gunning. There is no campus joshing, no topical humor takes place in the inquisition scene (with scandalous New York only 50 mi. away) ; even the old trick of stealing jokes from the Tiger at the last minute has not been resorted to. On the credit side of the ledger, sure to please not only cousins, sisters and aunts but impartial spectators as well, is the performance of the valet. Jose V. Ferrer, Class of 1933. When this jolly young man puts on a woolly yellow wig in Act II he is the image of Harpo Marx...