Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious to reflect that the American debt settlement which has just been exposed to the cold blasts of unpopularity in Great Britain was entered into solely as an inevitable preliminary to restoring that standard. Otherwise we should have waited like sensible people and made a satisfactory all-round settlement with the U. S. and with our European debtors...
...Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged...
...supplies stated by Mr. Churchill.) Pat came the British Exchequer's answer. The sums expended by Britain as agent for her Continental Allies were really more than counterbalanced by her own expenditures in their behalf. Ergo these sums cancel out of any discussion of the Anglo-U. S. debt. . .etc. . . . etc.. . . etc. . . . At this point the debate, though showing every sign of being continued ad infinitum, passed into the limbo where hairs are split-often by honest, well-intentioned men. The total result of last week's academic tilt was to rouse a majority of British editors...
...disinclination and its incapacity to legislate. Almost every possible program for saving the franc has been presented to it, and has been rejected on grounds of petty local politics. The Deputies have refused to vote adequate taxes, or to ratify either the Franco-British or the Franco-U. S. debt settlements. Amid this carnival, this debauch of legislative folly, the franc has lost two-thirds of its value within a year...
...Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn, charged with contempt of court for disregarding a summons in an action by one Andrew K. Reynolds of Washington, D. C., to collect $280, an alleged debt. Mr. Wellman was released only when Banker-Explorer H. Murray Jacoby of Manhattan, an admirer, sent him a check to end what Mr. Jacoby termed a "sad spectacle...