Word: loans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...result of the vote taken by the members of 1920 the Freshman have invested $1,000 of the money in their class treasury in Liberty Loan Bonds. Ten $100 bonds were purchased, to be sold when the class is in need of funds...
...agreeable to note that after our premature and tempestuous rejoicing over the success of the war loan, and our later and yet more tempestuous lamentations that it was to fail, it has now been subscribed with a fat surplus. Again we have been true to our national character, for the American likes to talk, and he talks a great deal; but when he is put to doing a job which must be done, he does...
...noon today applications for the Liberty Loan bonds will close. By this time all subscriptions from this district must be in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and after twelve o'clock no applications will be received. In order that New England may supply her full quota of $240,000,000 it will be necessary that at least $50,000,000 more be turned in before that time...
According to the latest reports New England has so far subscribed not much more than sixty per cent of her estimated contribution to the national loan. Of course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
Does the cautious Vermont farmer prefer the safety of hoarding his wealth in a sugar jar to the danger involved from investing it in his own nation? Does the canny Maine woodsmen see in the national loan the wild perils of high finance, from which, fate being merciful, he prefers to keep his money? Where is all of New England's strength, promised so often to the last drop of her blood and the last ounce of her treasure? The first drop of her blood has not been asked, nor the hundredth part of her treasure...