Word: loans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Scarcely has the Liberty Loan been subscribed but we are called upon again to give our money. The cause is no less just, no less necessary. The money spent in bonds goes to create great engines of destruction that shall shake the enemy and drive him back from the country he has ravaged; the money given to the Red Cross maintains a great organization that alleviates the suffering of our own soldiers and of the unfortunate civilians in this war zone...
Though the American people have subscribed most generously to the Liberty Loan they cannot sit back and say they have done enough. The demands of the war have only begun to be felt here. When we look at the civilians of France and England we can see that their gifts of time, energy and money have been increasing steadily in spite of the pressure of war. We must not be behind them...
...headlines with an air of comparative indifference, prepared for the ordinary "local engagements" and "improvements of positions," where a week ago we snatched at the morning paper prepared for the worst. In this country, we have undoubtedly slipped into this tranquil stage behind the heavy barrage of the Loan campaign, which has given us little time for other things. Is the present state of mind one of unjustified confidence? By no means, Hard tests still confront the Allied armies; but the fact that refuses to be explained away is that in the seventh week of Germany's supreme effort...
...formal University Liberty Loan drive one week ago, the College had subscribed $56,050, and the University total was $104,400. Since then the Seniors have gone "over the top", completing the undergraduate success, and with other subscriptions the College total is now $67,850, and the grand total has risen to $188,500. The undergraduates alone have almost doubled the University's collection of $35,370 in the second Loan...
...HAVEN, CONN., May 5.--The national Liberty Loan drive closed with the student total at Yale standing at $40,150. The total for the entire university...