Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Ohio flood rolled down the Mississippi to New Orleans and apparent danger of leaking levees passed, Congress sent to the President a bill setting up a $20,000,000 Disaster Loan Corp. As a subsidiary of the R. F. C. to make rehabilitation loans to flood victims. He promptly signed...
...communicative mood was Mr. Morgenthau last week. He referred to a story about a possible U. S. loan to Germany as having been written by "one of those city slickers." Said he: "I think some country boy sold him the story." While Mr. Morgenthau was discussing bigtime money matters in press and private conference last week, Chairman Leo T. Crowley of Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. had something to say to the nation's bankers on distinctly smalltime money matters. Releasing his 1936 report, Mr. Crowley lit into the members of FDIC for dabbling in speculative bonds. Warned...
...recent Fascist law forces sorely vexed Capitalists and landowners in Italy to buy Mussolini bonds up to a figure representing 5% of the value of their property. If they lack cash to buy these radical bonds they are forced to borrow it from the Government, paying interest on the loan. In Russia the financing of Five-Year Plans by forced loans is continually cleaning the pockets of the proletariat. In Germany moderate Adolf Hitler has greatest difficulty in restraining the arrant radicals of the Nazi Party led by such as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who continually agitate to persuade...
...defend the franc and the low rediscount rate. At the moment the franc was sinking, the Bank of France had just hiked the rediscount rate from 2% to 4% and the state of the franc required Britain's aid in the form of a $250,000,000 loan...
...money, arranged instead through a dummy company of his own to exchange munitions for tobacco. Paine refused to believe Deane's story, called him a "plodding, plotting, cringing mercenary," and Congress got rid of Paine to avoid exposing France's breach of treaty with England over the loan...