Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Record for the most courageous, most politically inept 1940 campaign statement thus far went last week to Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. In Des Moines, Iowa, corn kernel of the country, Mr. Taft bluntly announced his wholehearted opposition to the New Deal's corn-loan policy-on the very day the Agriculture Department announced a 57?-per-bushel corn loan, thus pouring into the State about...
...wide in the Valley of the Loire." At this Pravda of Moscow jibed: "Two things particularly worry Sikorski: first the absence of a capital city; secondly, the absence of a national minority to oppress. Sikorski is hesitating whether to import the latter or ask local French authorities for the loan of a few peasants to ill treat...
...Preachers Present Arms: the late Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, Brooklyn, N. Y. Congregationalist, father of Marjorie (Live Alone and Like It) Hillis. Because of U. S. "dillydallying" over entering World War I, Dr. Hillis proposed that the tortoise be substituted for the eagle as national symbol. A great Liberty Loan speaker, Dr. Hillis peddled lurid atrocity stories, some of which the Christian Century printed. One of the Doctor's favorites: "When the syphilitic German has used a French or Belgian girl, he cuts off her breasts as a warning to the next German soldier...
...keep down the price of consumer goods, to temper the war inflation for those who do not enjoy its upward effect on wages and speculative profits, Mr. Keynes proposed a double levy on all incomes, one part to consist of tax, the other of low-interest (2½%) loan to the Government, to be deposited at the Post Office Savings Bank and redeemed only after hostilities cease (except for personal dire emergency). On small incomes, the tax levy would be low, the loan levy high. Example: on ?500 of income, a total of ?105 (21%) might be levied...
...total expenditure carried in Sweden's last normal budget was 1,340,000,000 kroner. Dr. Wigforss asked the Riksdag to authorize a loan of 300,000,000 kronor, and plans to raise the remaining 300,000,-ooo needed to cover his "emergency deficit" by drastic taxation, particularly by upping the already high and unpopular Swedish taxes on liquor, tobacco, coffee, sugar. Liquor is sold by the famed Swedish State Monopoly and in angry protest at the deficit taxes last week 200 sailors from the Swedish battleship Manligheten ("Manhood") returned their motbocker or liquor ration books to the State...