Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight with all my power for the payment of foreign debts. I will see them paid dollar for dollar.? These loans were made with the intention that they should be paid on demand. But what did the Administrations of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover ever do toward collecting? The latter two let us into 'conferences' from which Uncle Sam emerged with very little left but chin whiskers after the Republicans had trimmed the debts down until only 30% was left...
...steel. Every important country except Canada and the U. S. regard scrap as a basic resource, forbid its exportation. Under the Versailles Treaty Germany was required to supply Poland with 300,000 tons yearly. The U. S. sells to all comers, principally Canada and Japan. The latter has recently been a heavy buyer. Some of Director Schwartz's best efforts have been in raising the tone of the trade. Ten years ago it was not uncommon for a steel mill to receive a carload of scrap "top-dressed" with meaty chunks of good steel that concealed a load...
...black-hearted villain, with ambitions toward a respectable marriage. Since Jane threatened to be an embarrassing liability he decided to liquidate her. Benson was quickly arrested and the affair would have gone hard with him had not District Attorney Welden made an enemy of able, weasly Lawyer Hopkinson. The latter, hoping to discredit the District Attorney, took Benson's case, presented it in court as an issue between Vice and Respectability. With luck, perjured witnesses and slick manipulation Benson was acquitted. Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding...
...Communist Army. The son is equipped and fed, but his pay is sent to his father. Observers point this out as the basic difference between Russian and Chinese Communism. The former goes to great lengths to break down the Family, with easy divorce and state nurseries. The latter uses the Family, strongest force in Chinese life, as the base of its system. Communist spokesmen in China last week insisted that they have 50,000,000 loyal adherents in the eight affected provinces...
...found on the battlefield. Slim brings father & son together, incognito. The father is about to kill himself, after seeing Tom at Culver. Tom saves him, learns who he is. Tom plans to leave Culver next year to stand by his disgraced father, when the Legion obtains for the latter an honorable discharge...