Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped to collect information from European bank heads on credit and business conditions, explain, in return, what he knew about U. S. business. But because he had never been to Basle before and because he was in direct charge of the Government's $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund. U. S. and French newspapers scareheaded reports that he was secretly negotiating with international bankers to stabilize the U. S. dollar at 59?...
...which during two and one half years Federal Reserve Banks have paid out in buying Government securities, by the return of $800,000,000 of gold from abroad, by the Government's spending of part of its $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund...
Same day Chancellor Hitler rushed nervously off to East Prussia to make what peace he could with President von Hindenburg. That the President was not entirely disinterested his personal enemies claimed. There is a certain Dr. Günther Gereke who raised a huge campaign fund for Paul von Hindenburg's last reelection (TIME. April 18, 1932) and afterwards kept a large remainder of the fund under circumstances which suggested that it was being held in reserve as a personal political war chest for the President. To arrest and convict Dr. Gereke of malfeasance was one of the Nazis...
...mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court. Rector Livingston, 70, was suing Miss Smith, 71, for $50,000, charging slander. He had begun paying attention when he heard that she was accusing him of misappropriating church funds. The trouble was over $110. That was the accumulated interest on a fund which one of Miss Smith's relatives long ago set up for the care of the church fence. Rector Livingston had put the money into the general church fund, pointing out that the sexton took care...
...House got around to passing the measure, the New Deal for Indians consisted of the following: 1) The right of a tribe by majority vote to obtain a Federal charter for a corporation to run tribal fishing, lumbering or other activities. 2) $10,000,000 for a revolving fund for loans to tribal organizations. 3) $250,000 a year for the expenses of tribal organizations. 4) $250,000 a year for Indian scholarships. 5) $2,000,000 for new land purchases. 6) Civil service changes for easier admission of Indians into the Indian Service. To many an old Indian...