Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in the Assembly, Salvadorians fervently unveiled an engraved plate bearing the new financial doctrine of the little nation. It was an excerpt from Martínez' last speech to Congress: "I propose as the keystone of the nation's policy that it never contract a new loan...
...year book will cost $5. It is expected to be ready for delivery some time early in January and is due to go to press about the middle of November. Profits, if any, will go to the Loan Library of Law Books at Phillips Brooks House...
...Banker George S. Nixon in tiny Winnemucca, Nev. around the turn of the century stalked a 6-ft. cowboy named George Wingfield. Not yet 21, Buckaroo Wingfield had just arrived from Arkansas via Oregon, had not a penny. He tossed a diamond ring on the desk, asked for a loan. "I'm not running a hock-shop!" snapped...
...same week last year. And commodity prices were down-winter wheat from a 1937 high of $1.29 to $1.02 a bu.; corn from $1.16 to 97? a bu.; cotton from nearly 14? to just above 9? a Ib.-the peg set by the Government's new cotton loan policy...
...first serious mistake was to acquire the services of a notorious swindler named Parker H. French, whom he sent to San Francisco to recruit more men, to dicker with Vanderbilt's agents for a loan. When Walker should have executed French, he executed instead an innocent hostage. Native support almost completely vanished when he followed this up by shooting a popular enemy leader. But a worse mistake, even worse than sending French to Washington as Nicaraguan minister, was to revoke the Vanderbilt concession in favor of that hard-fisted financier's double-crossing colleagues, to whom Vanderbilt wrote...