Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed make war?like a mad bulldog-walrus-tiger all rolled into one! Strangely enough, his pessimistic worldly philosophy caused him to deny explicitly on one occasion that God inspired the almost religious Crusade which he made out of the War. He gave the credit to the Spirit of France: "Ce n'est pas Dieu, c'est la France qui le veut...
...your Dec. 14 issue, you say that the six little girls who made the rug for President Coolidge tied 4,404,247,000 knots in ten months. Assuming that each girl worked every minute of ten hours a day, for ten months, your figures give each girl credit for having tied 1360 (approximately) knots a minute. Really, you know...
Treasury. Secretary Mellon declared that he believed national prosperity is founded on a sound basis and may look hopefully to the future; that the policy of paying off the public debt as rapidly as possible has improved public credit and released funds for investment in business; that in framing tax reduction, personal exemptions should not be raised too high, so that the number of tax payers will be insufficient to furnish necessary revenue in a national emergency. Much of his report contained matter similar to that in the President's budget message...
...hundreds of millions of pounds which it might eventually have been adjudged to owe the Empire, Mr. Baldwin's logic was widely considered irrefutable. President Cosgrave spoke of the agreement as marking "a turning point in Irish history" and likely to strengthen the Free State's unstable credit. Sir James Craig, Premier of Ulster, went so far as to propose that the Ulster border police be disbanded as a definite fruition of the present accord...
Store windows had big signs up: "Bankers, give Florida due credit. Check it up and pledge to indorse it without protest . . . ." A real estate spellbinder went about urging bankers "to give Florida help with bonds, stocks, debentures, and other collateral." Almost none of the financiers thus exhorted were able to discover exactly what was meant...