Word: crediteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, May 24, contains a review of Charles Eugene Claghorn's The Mocking Bird in which credit for writing the song, Listen to the Mocking Bird, is given to the late Septimus Winner. The review does go on to state that "Sep" got the idea for his most famous song from "Whistling Dick," a Negro beggar who used to strum his guitar and whistle like a bird...
Several weeks ago at a White House press conference, newshawks brought up the subject of Premier van Zeeland and his visit to the U. S. President Roosevelt exhibited an expression of bewildered innocence that would have done credit to Lillian Gish...
...deficit, necessitating new taxes. The President proposed a tax of 1? a gallon on exported molasses, to bring in $1,600,000 yearly, a 5% tax on the gross product of mines, a tax on sugar used by national industries. A "forcible bill of exchange" for all credit sales, costing up to $200 on a transaction involving $50,000, would yield another $1,000,000, and a 5% tax on capital leaving the island $1,100,000 more. Biggest boost was suggested in the tax on resident foreigners, now $1.55 a head, which would be raised to $5 for laborers...
...gold produced is another dollar added to the U. S. national debt, for in its sterilization program the Treasury has to borrow the money to buy the gold it puts in cold storage. Since last December when the sterilization program was inaugurated to keep gold imports from inflating the credit structure any further, more than $800,000,000 worth of dead metal has been bought and locked...
...problem is certainly not solved by the Riverside addition, although the University is to be commended for bringing into use all available facilities. For this effort, credit is due, but not credit for victory. For those outside there is no victory yet, not even the stop-gap consolation of House library, dining hall, and common room privileges. For them remains only the vague, unsatisfying hope for better treatment in the future...