Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted a resolution postponing the maturity of France's $400,000,000 debt to the U. S. for surplus war supplies from...
...Adopted a resolution (129-86) postponing maturity of part of the French debt (see above...
...Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York. She inquired "whether it would be possible to constitute a committee of women of your own standing in the social world, who would interest themselves in creating sentiment for observance of the Prohibition laws within their own circles. My eventual desire," said she, "is to form a national committee composed...
...Dickinson, opened an orange-juice stand in Manhattan. Each paid in $200. Next year, they opened four more stands, increased the capital stock. But thirsty people did not take kindly to street-corner orangeade. Business lagged. In 1915, Stockholder Dickinson, practically insolvent, transferred his share of stock for a debt cancellation to one Walter L. Titus, through Titus's brother. New-Stockholder Titus, little interested in the money-losing company, "wholly abandoned the enterprise," refused to contribute much-needed additional funds. Soon a new company, Burnee Corp., was formed-consisting of Stockholder Neely and Willard S. Burrows...
Legal and statistical minds, still buzzing last week with the staggering War-debt settlement figures of $8,806,000,000, were presented with another claim involving governments. That claim...