Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...robot has not yet come, but H. G. Wells sees it approaching along with the complete domination of the business men. So educators hasten to justify their product to the new monarchs by pointing out civilization's debt for the truths discovered by scientists, and the progressiveness of college trained men. Doctor Hopkins, referring to Faraday and Pasteur, refuted the financiers, but in doing so deprecated the insistence on material results. He testified to the value of "better thinking", to the need of it in a nation where book censorship, the Scopes' Trial, and Mayor Thompson could happen...
...injustices done to their brethren in Mexico, but U. S. financial interests there became quietly expectant, recently, when it was found that Mexican tax revenues were falling below a point at which Señor Calles could meet the payments due to Manhattan bankers on the Mexican national debt...
...dollars, pesos-is the pivot around which President Calles has swung away from Mexican ideals of retroactive confiscation and toward U. S. ideals of justice for U. S. interests in Mexico. Once justice was done, once Lower Manhattan was appeased, it would be possible to tide over the Mexican debt payments...
...Briand treaty proposition which called for a signed resolution against all war between France and America. The editors of the Fatherland accused France in no uncertain terms of making a mere stage play to insure kind treatment from Congress when it comes to revise the plans for debt settlement. The return proposal from Washington that all the nations unite in signing this solemn compact for the outlawry of war took the wind out of French Sails. Their aim had been, according to their former enemies, to secure themselves by treaty with their powerful neighbors, that might allow them...
...suave, plump, oval-faced statesman, eyes keen, beard a scrubby Vandyke, was hailed as the real creator of the new gold lira. He is Count Guiseppe Volpi di Misurata. Citizens of the U. S. remember the business-like fashion in which he negotiated the funding of Italy's War debt to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). Last week he revealed the vast credits which he has built up abroad to enable Italy to defend her new currency against fluctuation on international exchange. Said he: "The Bank of Italy wishes to secure the collaboration of international bankers?just...