Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prospect. The Council on assembling was faced with the problem of deciding a whole series of controversies including 1) the postal juridiction and munitions de-disposition of Mosul; 2) Polish pots in Danzig; 3) disposition of the unused portion of the Austrian loan and Austrian finances in general; 4) opium control; 5) minorities in Rumania and elsewhere, 6) international relief; 7) slavery...
...announced in Manhattan that the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank had granted a credit of $10,000,000, secured by gold to the Bank Polski. The loan is for one year at 4½%. The credit will be used to maintain the zloty on the exchange because Polish currency was recently placed on a gold basis...
...protestations. At their conclusion he directed the waiter to bring to the table a bottle of Imperial Toquay, and having filled two glasses, said; "Your health, my friend." Eugene Field, that celebrated wag with the face of a tortured martyr, would shamble into Lawson's office, bent on a loan of lunch money. Then would follow mumbled circumlocutions, explanations, an appeal, a roar of laughter from Lawson. Twisting his Savonarola visage, Field would scuttle from the office. . . "Sure, I diddled...
...broke. Soon Magee began to expose corruption in New Mexican politics. Fall came to his office and demanded that Magee quit his attacks. Magee went on. One day Senator Bursum, then "on the outs" with Fall came into Magee's office and said in effect: "You have a loan of $60,000 from a Kansas City bank. It's due pretty soon. You think it's going to be renewed. It isn't. Get ready to meet it." Magee had only $25,000. He appealed to his readers for support and within 20 days, when...
...Barclay's visit was called "unofficial." Asked if he had come to negotiate a loan, he replied with a smile: "No, we do not need to borrow money from the United States just now, but later, perhaps, a loan may be asked for to develop the railroad system...