Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make speeches. M. Daeschner went to a Wall Street luncheon, spoke, was told by General John J. Pershing that France would not default. He later addressed an Alliance Francaise luncheon at his hotel. Said he: "In a few years, America will know whether she was right or wrong to loan money to France...
Undaunted, their Majesties Ferdinand and Marie visited France, England, overstayed their welcome, failed to raise a loan (TIME, May 26, Aug. 25, RUMANIA...
...succeeded Lord Alverstone as Lord Chief Justice; and at the outbreak of the War, he advised several financial measures, notably the issue of one-pound notes. Three times he was selected as British representative to the U. S.: 1915, as Sir Rufus Isaacs, head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission; 1917, as Viscount Reading, Special Envoy; 1918, as Earl Reading, Special Ambassador...
...from voting. At the same time, an event occurred which virtually spelled the downfall of the Cabinet. After the Government had declared and reiterated that an increase in the fiduciary note circulation was needed solely for commercial purposes and that new money would be obtained by a forced consolidation loan conscripting 10% of the national wealth at 3% interest, it was made known through the publication of the weekly statement of the Bank of France that not only had the legal note circulation of 41,000,000,000 francs been exceeded by two billion francs, but that the excess money...
...numbers and specialties in the score, and keeps its head and its temper through all this wrestling, occasionally cocking a humorous eye up at its assailants with a line like. "You must have some vices--do you row?" or "Our family dates as far back as the first Liberty Loan drive!" Now and then it makes fun of the plot, which is as a Pudding book should. The book spent a good deal of time rounding out a comic character with a weakness for cross-word puzzles, which is either over or under-played by C. T. F. B. Lyon...