Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.) the creditor powers presented Germany with a grand total reparations bill of $28,000,000,000, payable over 58 years.* Since the people of Germany roughly number 60,000,000, each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with a reparations debt of $466. Even in the U. S. there are babes to whom $466 is quite a pot of money. Still, to a really potent babe (born yesterday and with 58 years in which to grow up paying on the installment plan), even $466 or 1,957 gold marks...
...existence. A revision of the banking laws as suggested would doubtless be beneficial and in addition to this what we need is a heavy inheritance tax on large fortunes, say 95% on all over a million dollars, use this money to make public improvements and to pay the National debt and to pay the Soldiers' Pensions...
...Smoot feet, large and heavy, once almost created a diplomatic Incident when the French Debt Funding Commission returned to Paris to complain that Senator Smoot, a U. S. Commissioner, had comfortably rested his well-filled shoes upon their conference table. The catch word of that conference was France's "capacity to pay." At its conclusion a French Commissioner called upon Senator Smoot to bid him farewell, to ask if it were really true that Mormons practiced polygamy and if so, how they did it. The Senator replied: "That all depends upon?'the capacity...
...operetta" of this type owes a debt to Gilbert and Sullivan. The present composer, Mr. Maurice Jacquet, puts his opus in that debtor class though, no doubt, unintentionally. Traces of those British gentlemen and of Johann Strauss abound. But in spite of these resemblances, the songs have a freshness and a catchy quality not to be credited most other imitators...
...Young was palpably embarrassed when Frenchmen began calling his Bank of International Settlement, the "Bank of Nations," thus linking it by verbal implication with the League of Nations. In the authoritative Paris Temps, M. Le Senateur Victor Henry Berenger-who negotiated the unratified Mellon-Berenger Franco-U.S. debt settlement-wrote lyrically: "La Banque des Nations is as necessary now as national banks were a century ago, for nations have become mere provinces. If bankruptcies and ruin, which have followed the years 1914 to 1918, are to be avoided, if a new war, even more atrocious than the last...