Word: guaranteee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A certifying bank guarantees that the depositor has funds on hand for the payment of the check, and the genuineness of the maker's signature. In the absence of a stated amount it seems impossible that a bank can make this guarantee.
Police worked like beavers wiring down iron gratings, removing fences from tree trunks, piles of paving blocks and other impromptu weapons, and warning cafe proprietors to clear their terraces of siphons and heavy saucers. A dozen times angry crowds, led by Royalists, were beaten back by police reserves. Meanwhile the...
During the two or three weeks directly following repeal loud promises were made by the Federal government that it would guarantee that prices charged for liquor would not be excessive, even if it had to exercise its right to regulate prices charged by the distiller; whiskey at $1.50 a quart...
The Texans waited 45 minutes and Thomas did not appear. Finally an an nouncement was made that his $1,500 guarantee had not been raised. He had offered to sing for $750 but had refused the $500 that Local Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald offered.
Mr. Roosevelt is apparently going to have an early chance to show how sincere he was in his annunciation of a new and more altruistic policy in South and Central American diplomacy. Yesterday in Cuba the government assumed control of the Compania Cubana de Electricitad after the company had failed...