Word: crediting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much opportunism has crept into the system of the body politic of today and in one form or another the human beings of today are demonstrating the old brutal principle of might is right. By force we are trying to establish peace. By deception we except to establish credit. Indulging in an ordinary butchery of the human race our politicians promise to evolve the brotherhood of man! ! All this evil has to be stopped; evil can never be remedied by evil but by truth. 'Love', says Mr. Gandhi, 'alone can conquer and the conquest of a true love is eternal...
...Adjusted service certificates, a type of paid-up insurance policy payable to the veteran at the end of 20 years. To those choosing this type of compensation a 25% addition will be made to the original credit, which will then bear interest at the rate of 4½% annually to the end of the 20 years, and yield a final credit 3,015 times greater than the original credit. The policy would have a loan value of from 50% to 87½%. In case of death the policy would be paid in full. (About 75% of the veterans are expected...
...improvements on farm or home, the whole to amount to 25% more than the normal credit. (About 22½% of the veterans are expected to take this option. Cost...
...constructive side the Party advocated reopening full relations with Russia; free trade; credit on enterprise, such as development of internal transport by road and water, to cure unemployment; afforestation; reclamation and drainage of land; development of Imperial resources; railway building in the overseas nations; emigration; cheapening of inter-Imperial transit; remodeling of the Insurance (TIME, Nov. 19) and Poor Relief Acts; promotion or cooperation between Capital and Labor; Government assistance to farmers...
...cost of reconstruction in the devastated areas. These negotiations, however, fell through principally because Chancellor Stresemann, exercising pressure upon the industrialists, declined to depart from his standpoint that the Ruhr occupation is illegal and that whatever the French have seized from that territory must be placed to the credit of reparations- as there could be no question of paying France and Belgium for an illegal occupation. When the Chancellor's letter was shown to Colonel Georges, acting for General Dégoutte, who is the French general in command of the occupational forces, he jumped up and exclaimed...