Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Hoover . . . unlawfully usurped legislative powers ... a policy inimical to the welfare of the United REPRESENTATIVE MCFADDEN He followed Thaddeus Stevens. States . . . unlawfully dissipated financial resources . . . injured the credit and financial standing ... his declaration of the moratorium has meant sacrifices by the American people. ... He did appoint one Andrew W. Mellon Ambassador while a resolution for the impeachment of the said Mellon was being heard. . . . Treated with contumely the veterans . . . sent a military force heavily armed against homeless, hungry, sick, ragged and defenseless men, women and children and drove them out by force of fire and sword. . . ." When the clerk...
...Federal Reserve sent a blue-clad, barrel-chested guard to tie onto the two closet doors tags bearing no words but a number. This number served twice as an earmark in the next few minutes. It was first written down on the books of the Federal Reserve to the credit of the Bank of England, then transferred to the credit of the U. S. Treasury, thereby making the gold in the two closets the property of all the U. S. people...
...April Mr. Young was attempting to prevent Mr. Insull's bank creditors from closing in on him. His desire was to keep the Insull structure solvent because a failure "might impair the credit of utilities everywhere, and when you impair the credit of utilities you impair their buying power from the General Electric...
...those who are supersensitive upon the subject of national honor and the like. Too often the assumed righteousness of wars is merely the result of a processof rationalization. We have to find excuses to justify the messes we get into, and the excuses must further the cause by casting credit upon ourselves. Thus in war both sides are equally righteous and unrighteous at the time, but subsequent critical reflection usually discerns a predominance of the latter. Stuart Buckins...
...Shortly after National Air Transport was organized in 1926, and before it began service, "Bing" Seymour joined its ranks. He remained with it until a few months ago when he resigned as vice president in charge of operations (of United Airlines, which" had absorbed NAT). To him went much credit for early airmail pioneering. He will doubtless make his headquarters in St. Louis, operating centre of American Airways...