Word: indirectness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bonds. He loaned Greece $5,000,000 for the monopoly. Ecuador received $2,000,000 and a yearly payment. A similar dicker pleased Esthonia. And such a deal was responsible for the $36,000,000 Hungarian bonds for which U. S. and foreign investors began, last week, to make indirect payment...
...heroes-Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. He gained fame as an exciting speaker last winter when Democrats celebrated Jackson Day in Washington. His assignment as Keynoter at Houston put an entire political party and a huge radio audience at the vocal disposal of a man long confined to the indirect, often anonymous, medium of the scrivener. Mr. Bowers made it a point to have his place on the program shifted to an evening hour, when more radios would be turned on. The Bowers speech began with contrasts between Abraham Lincoln and Harry Ford Sinclair and between the political schools...
...bonfire. The spread might be said to antedate the famous ban on "plum cake" in 1693. For many a year Harvard graduating classes planted Ivy shoots in the unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first to invite mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to the celebration, the affair up to that date being hardly favorable for feminine attendance because of liberal libations of iced ruin punch...
Cried David Lloyd George (Liberal) bristling wittily at Chancellor Churchill: "Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul! . . . He [Churchill] is robbing the whole twelve Apostles in order to endow Paul. . . . Any such program would constitute an indirect subsidy for the property owning classes [i.e. for the owners of farmlands and producer goods]. . . . The whole proposal is thoroughly vicious...
...least six good reasons exist for private capital to build toll bridges: 1) motor travelers are willing to pay tolls to shorten their journeys; 2) local authorities derive a certain, if trifling, indirect income; 3) government authorities are often too lethargic to construct needed bridges; 4) engineering friends of private capitalists, rather than the engineering friends of officeholders get the construction jobs and profits; 5) sale of bridge bonds and stocks provides work and profits for banking houses; 6) bridge bonds and stocks are investment opportunities for people with idle money...