Word: loan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Homans, he joined Lee, Higginson and Company, being admitted to partnership in 1918. He was vice-president of the Harvard Club of Chicago, chairman of the Northwest District and member of the Executive Committee of the Chicago Council of Boy Scouts, and on the Publicity Committee of the Liberty Loan Organization during the first four Loans...
...capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice, etc. The U. S. Congress should not attempt to interfere with these land laws. Banking. The Federal Reserve system should be extended to the Philippines. Also, Federal land banks should be established to loan money to Filipino farmers at reasonable rates. They now pay from 12% to 30% interest. Moro Provinces. Mindanao and Sulu, inhabited by Mohammedans, should not be separated politically from the rest of the islands,- but U. S. control in these provinces might well be strengthened to prevent Moro-Filipino animosity. Miscellaneous...
...This measure for the deportation of incorrigible political and social riff-raff, including loan sharks, cocain sellers, white slave traffickers and perverters of children, among them some women, will be a social purge ridding the country of many pernicious influences. In Naples alone over 60 usurers and 40 co cain sellers repeatedly guilty of the lowest offenses are on the deportation list. With these I have no pity...
...think it was a loan between friends. We know Fall and Doheny had been friends for 40 years. Doheny is a millionaire. Why wouldn't he lend $100,000 to an old friend if he needed...
...first week the pot is given to him who is voted the most needy. Next week it goes to another man, the next most needy. When the 25 weeks are up each man has paid in and taken out of the gooson 50 pesos, but, in effect, a loan without interest has been made to each, each loan, proportionate in time to the borrowers' need. While the gooson system is disadvantageous to the less needy members in a given year, they count on making this up as the more needy members in other years. Thus the gooson is both...