Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commercialization" is a mysterious word which correspondents have been bandying for years. It is used as a convenient abbreviation for the prolix idea that Germany's state debt to the Allies might be transformed into a private debt, by selling German bonds in the world market and using the cash realized to pay off the state debt at once, leaving the new private debt to be paid off in the course of years. Thus a lofty obligation would be "commercialized" into a vulgar loan. The advantage to the Governments concerned would be that, if Germany should default, mere private...
...case to be argued is one of corporation law, concerned with a debt incurred in a poker game, and the binding force, if any, of "debts of honor." The judges are to be the Honorable J. W. Kephart, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, presiding; the Honorable H. T. Kellogg, Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York; and the Honorable O. W. Branch '01, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire...
...Dawes Plan are about to begin among the Allies, the U. S. and Germany (TIME, Jan. 14). The representatives of France, he said, must have a free hand. They would cling tenaciously to the principle that Germany must pay enough to satisfy French reparations claims and cover the debt of France to Britain and the U. S. Within that rigid framework the Chamber ought to accord the Government every liberty in negotiation...
...Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed to negotiate a satisfactory Franco-U. S. debt settlement (TIME...
...gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor told Brady that moving pictures would make up its losses. Backed by Brady, he started a chain of cinema "palaces" in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh? empty stores made into theatres with crude stages and chairs bought second-hand from bankrupt undertaking parlors. He had one real theatre with a piano?...