Word: loan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Etienne Clementel, Minister of Finance and le Senateur de Puy-de-Dome, presented to the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies the budget for 1925. A feature of the new proposals is the retention of Premier Poincare's hated 20% tax increase (TIME, Jan. 28). No loan was suggested, although it had been widely circulated that one would be asked...
...marks the end of the policy of raising loans to meet normal charges- a policy which threatens to engulf France in financial quicksands. Once the deficits due to previous budgets have been regulated by a loan of liquidation, any appeal to the national thrift must have but one object-consolidation of the floating debt and completion of the restoration of the devastated region...
...sons, Faisal, King of Iraq, and Abdullah, Emir of Kerak (Trans-Jordan). These two monarchs had been able to employ war birds of Britain and strike terror and confusion into Ibn Saud's ferocious men by dropping fire from the skies. Husein, himself had asked the loan of a flock of war birds. But Britain refused. She could not become implicated in a religious war. She had definite obligations to the rulers of Iraq and Kerak under man-dates given her by the League of Nations. Husein was independent-so independent in fact that he had hesitated overlong...
...Wigglesworth '12 has resigned his position as head of the United States Treasury War Loan Staff and will take up a position as assistant to S. P. Gilbert Jr. L. '15, agent general of the Reparations Payments under the Dawes settlement, it was announced last night...
...peace to Europe if we leave Russia out. That is the biggest reason for these Russian treaties. We shall not ask the House of Commons for a blank check. We shall state the amount and we shall ask Parliament to decide the conditions under which it will guarantee the loan, how it shall be spent and the securities that must be demanded...