Word: loans
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Land Banks. There are about 50 joint stock land banks in the U. S. They have loaned out, chiefly for long terms, more than $600,000,000 during the last ten years. Last week one of the most important ones, the New York Joint Stock Land Bank, became more important by purchasing another important one, the New Jersey Joint Stock Land Bank of Newark. The New York bank in its turn is controlled by bankers from Cleveland, who also control the Ohio-Pennsylvania Joint Stock Land Bank. Notable among the Cleveland men are Parmely W. Herrick (son of Ambassador Myron...
...governor-general of the Philippines (see THE CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from the U. S. Shipping Board by appointing Albert H. Denton, Kansas banker, as successor. The President was vexed with Mr. Hill because the latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved. And the administration tax program was being knocked out of joint by the House of Representatives (see THE CONGRESS). President Coolidge let the word...
...President thought, however, that a Federal board might be set up, provided with a revolving loan fund and empowered to help farmers sell their crops profitably...
Official Steps. Although the unofficial acts of M. Briand and other League statesmen, last week, were of preponderant importance, the Council took certain official steps. It: 1) Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs...
...chartered in Delaware;! a holding company to find the market and sell $1,000,000 worth of guaranty stock in- 2) The Vermont Flood Credit Corporation, chartered in Vermont. Vermonters will be asked to take up $250,000 of the stock; outsiders $750,000. Vermont bankers will make relief loans to flood victims, accepting character to supplement collateral. If there are losses on the loans, the V. F. C. Corp. will shoulder 50%. Most of the V. F. C. Corp's directors are to be Vermonters and though the Corporation is designed to live only one year, its guarantees...