Word: debts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm products of 1929 were converted into cash, the resultant sum would pay off half the national debt or build four railroad systems the size of the Pennsylvania or run the City of New York without taxes for 14 years. Last week the Department of Agriculture compiled final estimates of crop values for the year. Significant figures...
Silent Howls. Soon after the Hoover of Mexico was elected he received an invitation to visit the U. S. from Thomas W. Lament, Chairman of the International Committee of Bankers concerned with Mexico's unpaid foreign debt. At that time Señor Ortiz Rubio told correspondents he had wired Mr. Lament: "In case I am able to accept your invitation I will advise you in ample time." But, when he left Mexico, the President-Elect said nothing about the invitation, declared that he was going for his health to Johns Hopkins, and has denied repeatedly that...
...because he turned the chair over to Representative Sloan of Nebraska during the bill's consideration in the Committee of the whole. Opposition to tax reduction came principally from Representatives Rankin of Mississippi, Ramseyer of Iowa, who argued heatedly but vainly for application of the surplus to public debt reduction...
...wars past and future-72? ($2,733,213,283, including $1,254,342,000 on the public debt, $759,799,895 on pensions and veterans' care, $719,089,388 on the Army & Navy...
Finally, acknowledgement should be made of the debt of gratitude that Harvard owes to these alumni who have taken it upon themselves, in response to a student demand, to bring about the recognition and reappearance of the Drama as a fine art in Cambridge...