Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British took the initiative?they pointed the way !" cried beak-nosed French Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin in Paris last week. He was speaking of the bold lead taken by beak-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain when he offered to holders of $7,500,000,000 worth of 5% British War Loan Bonds the alternative of asking repayment of their money in paper pounds or accepting new bonds paying only 3�% (TIME, Aug. 15). This example. M. Germain-Martin handsomely declared, gave him courage to offer holders of $3,332,000,000 worth...
...British and French conversion periods both ended last week. M. Germain-Martin gave his countrymen only six days in which to make up their minds, instead of three months, which was the British period of grace. Both conversions were highly successful, only 8%. of the British bondholders asking for their money and only 1% of the French...
...Many of those [Frenchmen] who did demand cash " said M. Germain-Martin, "gave as their reason that they 'fear an imminent...
...committee, which consists of M. S. Knowles '34, chairman, R. L. Barhens '34, Cullison Cady '35, D. S. Carmichael '35, H. E. Holm '34, David Martin '35, and Robert Paul '36, made the following statement...
...Green, whose office gathered the Capone-jailing evidence, started an inquiry. State's Attorney John A. Swanson demanded a $50,000 appropriation, to be used in weeding the Insull records for evidence of criminal acts. A committee of bondholders sought subpenas for Samuel Insull, now in Paris, and Martin John Insull, in Ontario. Samuel Insull Jr. suddenly sailed to join his father in Paris...