Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph, pill maker, who died in 1916, unfolded anew the extravagances of his wife and informed the court that his income was only $75,000 a year after taxes had been deducted. On that amount, he said, he could not afford to permit his wife to pledge indiscriminately his credit. The Court agreed...
Circumstances forced Premier Painlevé to go before the Chamber of Deputies to ask for a new war credit. "How much do you need?" jeered the Communists. The Government asked for and obtained 183,000,000 francs ($9,150,000) by a vote of 411 to 29, the Socialists abstaining and the Communists alone forming the opposition...
...These specific illustrations are made to point out that, in claiming credit for tax reductions and in expenditures and the cost of government, Federal officials are taking advantage of the fact that the country is no longer in war period. To claim credit for that is just like claiming credit for good weather...
...former is to see that the general interests of the University are looked after, especially regarding its relations with the Government. Political considerations are therefore bound to weigh in the election of candidates for the exalted post; although, in the case of Lord Oxford, political discrimination reflected no credit on the methods of the University...
About 90% of cheap cars and about 50% of high-priced cars are sold on time or deferred payments. Last year, about a billion dollars was employed in this way to finance the purchase from dealers of new cars alone. Since extension of credit to dealers along similar lines is usually a safer operation, probably another billion dollars was thus employed, making two billion dollars used altogether...