Word: fund
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then, if the loan fund should be exhausted, the Board would fall back on the Equalization Fee, a levy collected proportionately from all the growers of a surplus crop. The fairness of this scheme has never been questioned, since when a surplus crop occurs, all who have grown the crop have contributed to the surplus and helped drive the price down. The difficulties foreseen are in determining when a surplus exists and in deciding what is a "fair price...
...said in 1920 that Will Hays was a menace to America, and I have never since seen fit to retract my statement. During my Presidential campaign, almost eight years ago, I dwelt repeatedly on a $15,000,000 'slush fund' which I accused the Republican Party of receiving. . . . There are untold funds that went to the Harding campaign fund, of which no trace will ever be found, in all probability...
...sound out Italians upon possible future modification of the Dawes Plan. He is known to favor assigning to Germany a definite total reparations debt in place of her present sliding commitments to the Allies. Moreover Agent Gilbert is thought to lean toward the scheme for raising money to fund most of the German indebtedness in cash, by placing on the market huge blocs of German railway & industrial bonds now held by the Reparations Commission...
...equivalent of two million dollars gold was subscribed to a "vengeance fund," last week at Tientsin, by enraged surviving relatives of great Yuan Shih-kai (1859-1916). He was the last of the Manchu Viceroys, and became in 1912 the second President of the Chinese Republic. Last week his sons were made irate by reports that Yuan's mighty tomb in Honan, his native province, has recently been looted and denied by the itinerant so-called Christian War Lord, Feng Yu-hsiang, who has now made Honan his base (TIME...
Outstanding among contributors to the ''vengeance fund," last week, was Yuan's onetime sixth and favorite concubine, now a very aged lady of august consequence and immense wealth. With her approval, Yuan Shih-kai's eldest son, Yuan Keh-cheng, took charge of the $2,000,000 fund and announced that he would at once raise and equip two brigades of troops to fight against Feng Yu-hsiang, despoiler of tombs...