Word: loan
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...best methods for the campaign that men who cannot buy a bond by themselves may subscribe to one with others in a similar position. Later, in case of necessity, the bond may be sold and its value with accumulated interest divided between them. In this way the loan will reach men who otherwise would be unable to contribute. With three other methods of payment, there is ample opportunity for everyone to make at least a small investment...
...which Barre possesses was once lodged in our trouser pockets, we must commend the town. It invested our capital in the best way possible; it bought Liberty Bonds. If the money still in our possession is as well laid out as that we poured into Barre's coffers, the Loan will certainly be a success...
...which the committee of eight captains already appointed and teams of five men under each will begin their work. Their aim will be to carry on a publicity campaign by means of banners and streamers and to thoroughly canvass the University to solicit subscriptions to the new government loan. This measure has been prompted by the evident necessity of universal response to this movement throughout the country, and especially in the colleges which have already lost so many men on account of active participation in government service. The vast importance of making this a popular loan was brought home...
...Liberty Loan Committee working among citizens of foreign descent in Boston is looking for men who can spare about two hours a day at times suiting their convenience during the next two weeks to assist the machinery of the campaign among those citizens. The work will not consist of actual canvassing nor speech-making, but in directing and encouraging the efforts of the local committees. This will give men who are not in active military service and those who cannot buy bonds an opportunity to aid materially in this government movement...
...American public is not responding to the Second Liberty Loan to the extent asked by the Government. Of the sum of five billion dollars called for, only one-tenth has been subscribed in half the time allotted. Five billion seems a tremendous sum until we remember that only last February, England, with a population and a national wealth less than one half our own, and weakened by two and a half years of war, cheerfully subscribed to an even greater sum. The average American has not yet reached that point of patriotism where he will invest all his savings...