Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justification of the cost of his ammunition the President wrote: "Let us unanimously recognize the fact that the Federal debt, whether it be twenty-five billions or forty billions, can only be paid if the nation obtains a vastly increased citizen income. I repeat that if this citizen income can be raised (from an estimated fifty-six billion this Year) to eighty billion dollars a year the National Government and the overwhelming majority of State and local governments will be 'out of the red.' " And the President added: "Business must help. I am sure business will help...
...vacant anyway, was that John C. Wiley will stay on as consul general. Excerpt from Note No. 2: "I have to notify the German Government that the . . . United States will look to it for the discharge of the relief indebtedness of . . . Austria to the . . . United States." Austria's debt to the U. S.-for post-war relief loans-currently stands...
...debt-ridden churches in his locality, a devout Methodist last week put forward a bit of oldtime religion. John O. Mullins, of Wesley, Iowa offered 100 bushels of seed corn free to farmers who would undertake to plant it on "God's acres," give the crop to God's uses. Worth $700, the seed corn would be distributed in 7-pound packages, each of which would plant one acre, produce 50 bushels-at 75? per bushel, a total of some...
...Automobile Manufacturers' Association and the individual motor car companies, which pay the operational expenses and contribute the fellowships for study under the Bureau. At the most, Harvard furnishes a few facilities. Hence, the Bureau has no restraining obligations here, is perfectly free to leave whenever it so desires. Any debt which it owes to Harvard for publicity has been amply repaid in kind...
...night while the Revolution of 1848 was spreading over the German states, a great organizer, founder, artist, poet, and musician sat on a luxurious couch in great anxiety, not over the political situation, but over his financial affairs. He had piled one debt upon the other, and the climax had come when all his friends refused to advance him any more credit. "Men should be glad to lend to a genius like me," he thought, getting up and pacing the room...