Word: crediteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terms with good neighbors in Latin America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...
Diplomatic butter in the form of $120,000,000 credit was served last March to Brazil's Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha. Beady-eyed, flap-chinned General Goés Monteiro was on a military mission, returning the visit U. S. Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall had just paid him. That capable soldier-diplomat was dispatched to Brazil after authoritarian-minded Goés Monteiro began toasting the discipline, glory and honor of the German Army and had accepted an invitation to review Nazi troops. Last week the U. S. War Department, announcing its plans to toast Goes Monteiro this...
...Port Credit...
Last week Britons were chagrined to learn that the Nazis had in part sidestepped this restriction, had taken over $30,000,000 of Czech gold held in London in the name of the Bank for International Settlements. The Czech National Bank had a $30,000,000 credit with the B.I.S. The "World Bank," a Swiss corporation owned and operated by the central banks of the powers and a consortium of U. S. banks, keeps no gold in its modest headquarters at Basle, instead maintains deposits with the member banks, one of them the privately operated Bank of England. Goateed Montagu...
...flood control works. On the Senate floor, restlessness to restore these items impelled Majority Leader Barkley to promise that, if Senators would let the savings stand, the President would spend equivalent sums on these projects from Relief moneys. Avoiding a record vote, the Senators assured themselves of credit with the home folks, voted the $50,000,000 back...