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...principle and interest on the bonds," he explained, "will be assessed according to the ordinary scale of contributions of which we pay only about one-third. Although the United States will buy about half of the bond issue, it is obviously better to be a 50 per cent creditor than an almost 50 per cent contributor...
...mortgage had been a cause of long bitterness between the two men. Webster had luxurious tastes and lived beyond his means, and he had borrowed heavily from the independently wealthy Parkman. Parkman became furious with his debtor when he found that both he and another creditor had been given the same bill of sale as a security. He pursued Webster relentlessly and finally made an appointment to see the latter at his laboratory to collect the debt...
...swallowed a small strychnine pill, which unfortunately had no effect even in his excited condition. At his trial three months later Webster admitted to striking Parkman with a stick of wood in the heat of an argument, but he stoutly maintained he had not meant to kill his creditor. Although the court-room gallery had room for only 100, it is reported that over 60,000 people saw some part of the trial...
...Europe for more than half a century, bringing public officials low, underwriting dictators, helping to finance two world wars (on both sides), and buying himself virtual immunity from the law. With characteristic foresight, March bankrolled Dictator Francisco Franco's Spanish Civil War campaign. Today, still Franco's creditor and a powerful voice in Spanish affairs, he boasts a personal fortune that is said to match the U.S.'s entire foreign aid program to Spain - a matter of $1 billion. "I'm so rich," Juan March once said, "that I don't even know how rich...
...became, after this high point, the picture of the "bloated creditor" because of its isolation and was debt policies, he added. Despite the United States large contributions to World War II and the United Nations, he said, this degradation has now reached the point where it is "quite fashionable to find America's every wrong and minimize its good points...