Word: debtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until the whites of the enemy's eyes were visible. Financial affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed, but still there is usually some mention of Robert Morris, who is described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing to its connection with an even more neglected Revolutionary figure, one Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When...
Great Britain is by far the largest War debtor to the U. S., and other payments so far are trifling compared with hers. She funded her obligations first and has gone farthest in meeting them. The amount of principal and interest to date received...
...cannot let this memorial day go by without expressing to you my gladness for the twenty-five years that are gone. Twenty-four of them I have spent with you, and every one has made me more deeply your debtor. Without you I should not have known myself; I might have missed my work; and should certainly have conceived it in different terms. No living man has had a larger share than you in shaping my ideals and powers. At the first I saw how significant you were to be for me and--though disliking--I set myself early...
...Matzenauer, contralto prima donna: "Last week I filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. My liabilities were listed as $48,410. Among those to whom I am debtor are Felix Warburg, banker and art patron, $20,000; the U. S. Government, $1,500 income tax; New York State, $1,000 income tax; modistes, department stores, tradesmen, fish and ice dealers; $1.97 to Western Union. My only unmortgaged assets were my opera costumes, but I claimed exemption on those...
...claiming from us payment not of a debt of commerce but of war. You know, as we do, that our treasury is empty. In such a case the debtor must sign promissory notes, and that is just what you are asking us to do, and yet each of us ought to believe that settlement in cash will be made on the day fixed...