Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Designer of the Blue Eagle was Charles T. Coiner, Philadelphia artist. Its originator is supposed to have been Frank Wilson, onetime Sioux City newshawk, Liberty Loan propagandist and now a chicken-raiser at Pawling...
...dash by air to the London Conference plausible Chancellor Dollfuss wangled in its lobbies a $43,000,000 League of Nations loan to Austria, largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more...
...stanch example to other Dominions, the Government of Canada followed up the Empire Declaration last week by turning for a loan to London instead of New York, for the first time in 20 years. She borrowed ?15,000,000 (63,054,000 Canadian dollars or 67,800,000 U. S. dollars at current exchange) at 4%, will use the money partly to finance Canadian public works, partly for redemption of other Canadian bond issues...
...thanks to brighter rails Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific was able to withdraw its application for an R. F. C. loan. Pennsylvania paid back to the R. F. C. the last of the $28,900,000 it borrowed to further its electrification program and work-making car repairs. All this confirmed in large measure what old railroaders maintained throughout the Depression: that all the railroads needed was a little more traffic. Other rail news of the week...
Waiting their turn until Edsel Ford should get his charter from the Comptroller of the Currency, Emory W. Clark and Col. Frederick M. Alger stood prepared to offer a plan for reorganizing the First National with a loan of $30,000,000 from the R. F. C. and subscriptions to common stock by depositors. The reorganized First National would pay an additional 25% dividend to depositors of the old bank, would eventually merge with National Bank of Detroit...