Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francisco was treated to the announcement that the symphony begin its 17th season free of debt, with the strongest personnel in its history, the largest advance sale. Credit was given the 640 guarantors who comprise the Musical Association of San Francisco, whose individual gifts ranging from $100 to $5,000 make possible the 70 concerts with soloists as famed as Beniamino Gigli, Harold Bauer, Edward Johnson, Albert Spalding, Maurice Ravel. To Conductor Alfred Hertz the glory and the honor for his splendid stewardship...
...called for a tax cut of 400 millions with special relief for corporations. Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the potent Senate Finance Committee, was in Washington talking about a tax cut of perhaps 500 millions. President Coolidge sharply announced that, with a U. S. debt of 18 billions, a tax cut of 500 millions was out of the question and 400 millions was immoderate. He strongly favored some tax reduction, he said, but would not say how much. Prior to last week the Administration's tax cut estimate was 300 millions...
...would like some informed person to tell me the meaning, for example, of the formal official announcement of the Federal Department of State that it has approved the private refunding debt proposals of the French Government in the U. S., together with a Prussian and Polish loan totalling...
Also, a pertinent question arises as to whether M. Poincare's stand on the tariff is not derived from a desire to bargain for a safeguard clause* in the debt disaccord with the U. S., which the French Parliament refuses to ratify...
...only immediate effect that this ballon d'cssai had last week was to cause M. Poincarè to assert that France would continue her debt payments to the U. S. and Britain by extending the temporary arrangement under which she has been paying $20,000,000 a year to each country. A fuller statement was promised "early next year," the British agreement expiring in March; the U. S. in June...