Word: crediteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that rare type of woman, rarer today than in her time, who believed that her place was in the home, but made it a position for distinction and achievement far greater than any career in the outside world gained by modern feminists. In this book she is given credit for the first time for her remarkable qualities as a mother and for her influence on Wilson's career...
...credit of "Marked Woman" be it said that it brings Botte Davis back to America at a time when the American film audiences are in need of a few pictures about fallen women. American morals, especially New York morals, especially the morals of rich New Yorkers and provincials visiting New York, are definitely low, as everybody knows. If they were not, there would be no "clip joint" racketeers like the one who is the villian of this piece. If he were not in it Miss Davis could not be wronged. And that is her specialty, the thing she does before...
...difference between the 10% and 15% proposals was chiefly that the 15% cut looked bigger but was not mandatory and might end up as no saving at all, depending on the President. This was a tempting proposition. Congressmen could take credit for promoting Economy, the President all blame for sinking it. Such was the temper of Congress, however, that Senators Robinson, Byrnes, McKellar and other, less regular, supporters of the Administration came out strongly against it, declaring that they preferred a certain 10% cut (about $350,000,000 net after fixed charges) in the hand, to a possible...
...curious day by day parallel. At week's end as stock prices leveled off on solid ground an air of ingenuous satisfaction was all too plain in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt had apparently done a good job of deflation by suggestion, and the behavior of London banks in restricting credit on American securities gave reason to believe that the British Government understood its cues...
...explained this procedure to his partner by saying that it was a scheme for beating the Government out of a big income tax. As Bogen's pursuit of Martha got more expensive but no more successful, so much money went down the drain that the firm's credit was imperilled. Suddenly there was a creditors' meeting, bankruptcy proceedings...