Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outlook. "The road to Germany's recovery is not fully traveled. The critical years, when the total allotments will reach 2,500,000,000 gold marks annually, begin Sept. 1, 1926. . . . The operations of the first year, under an 800,000,000 gold mark external loan, have not been so much a test of German capacity to pay as of German economy to adjust itself to a return to stable conditions...
Later the genial Winston did his colleague Sir Austen the favor to "loan" him "No. 11 Downing,"** at which Sir Austen and Lady Cham- berlain proceeded to entertain the plenipotent signatories. A tea was likewise given to the delegates by the King and Queen at Buckingham. Elaborate festivities had originally been planned, but had to be abandoned on account of the Queen Mother's death...
...Zaniboni, and to cause the arrest of Capello at Turin, whither he had fled. The police specifically charged General Capello with being the liaison officer between antiFascists in Italy and antiFascists in France. The latter group, it was said, had raised 150,000 lire ($7,500.00) as a "Liberty Loan" to be spent in causing the death of Mussolini and the fall of Fascism...
...added the style of Baron, Viscount and Earl, during the War. And though his mother was born "a simple Cohen," and his father was "a merchant in the City of London," he himself became Lord Chief Justice of England as early as 1913. As President of the Anglo-French Loan Commission to the U. S. in 1915, Special Envoy thither in 1917, and High Commissioner and Special Ambassador to the U. S. later in that year, he well earned the titles subsequently conferred upon him by carrying out a series of confidential missions vital to the Allies...
...Journalism and politics for a while, but in 1914 he came again before the others and was elected to the State Senate. During the war years he was once more in the higher body of the General Court, and at the same time was a leader in the Liberty Loan drives As chairman of the Committee on Taxation in the Senate, he was called upon to deal with various war measures...