Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been estimated that in undeveloped raw materials alone, this area is--not excluding Siberia--the richest in the world. Benefits from the potential investment would accrue to both halves of the American continent. But the risks to private capital arising from unstable political equilibrium and the record of debt repudiation in the past make it unlikely if not impossible that under normal circumstances this capital would ever be put to work...
...plaintiffs last fortnight withdrew their suit against the Archbishop and the corporation. Said their counsel: "It is said, the Gauls feared only one thing, that Heaven might fall on their heads. Well! That is very much what happened." But the suit was not lost. St. Etienne parish acknowledged the debt, consented in court that judgment be recorded against it. Last week, while the six devout plaintiffs awaited notice of their restoration to the Church, all that remained was to find $261,939.83 to pay off the notes...
Three years ago, when Publisher Griffin met Viscount Cecil in Paris, he made the novel suggestion that Britain should pay her War debt to the U. S. with the Queen Mary and Bermuda. Lord Cecil was courteously vague, but Winston Churchill rebuffed him, as did President Albert Lebrun, to whom Mr. Griffin suggested that France give up the Normandie. Since then Publisher Griffin has been more insistent than ever that the U. S. collect its debts...
...president, Ernest Tener Weir, still gloomily sitting out Roosevelt, has meanwhile refunded $65,000,000 worth of debt to save half a million a year by lower interest rates. Saving every cent he could, getting the largest possible slice of business to be had, Weir last week denied that National is about to build another plant. Said he: "We won't invest in the Chicago area till the country gets back on its feet." Thus temporarily sparing Big Steel the headache of stiff competition in another market, E. T. Weir went off to Bermuda...
...Charging that the letters upped his blood pressure, hindering his recovery, Albert Clark sued for $10,000. The Court of Appeals overruled a motion of the defendants to throw out the suit, saying: "Neither beating a debtor nor purposely worrying him sick is a permissible way of collecting a debt...