Word: money
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...June 17, 1864, the Federal Congress passed an act designed to stop "speculation in the Government's money." The value of greenbacks had been very unstable, and that fact had been manifesting itself in a rising price of gold in terms of greenbacks in "futures" in the gold exchange in New York. Congress, therefore, by law closed the gold exchange, and forbade "futures" in gold and foreign exchange. Buying and selling went on--in small, demoralized markets. Gold was worth 198 in green-backs on the day the law passed. The next day it went to 208; the next...
...material must be gathered together to arm troops and sustain them during the long havoc-working months in the field. As example of this, if the constantly expected but unlikely sudden breakdown does occur in Germany, it will be not a breakdown of man power, but of material, of money, of national credit whereby individuals will cease to bear arms in defence of a nation which cannot insure their possessions...
Some of the huge amount of money which we must pay for war may come out of the current generation by taxes. Yet such taxes can both theoretically and actually pay but a small part of the heavy cost. The Government has offered millions of dollars in bonds to be subsidized for by the people. In this way coming generations may help pay for the cost of the war which we wage for the whole future no less than for the present...
...buying of a bond is not a gift; it is not a charity nor an adventure in business. It is a sound way of acquiring good interest on good money under the safest security possible. The nation has been asked to oversubscribe the issue. It cannot fall to do so if it desires to further the cause for which our armies shall fight. The subscription must be undertaken by the whole people. The college man, whatever other service he has undertaken, owes this service no less, to back his nation to the utmost with his resources as he will back...
...better moods -- to see those who in the more artificial and constrained social order of the college would never have occasion to meet, and would never form an intimacy should they meet, working together on a just and natural plane of parity. The distinctions of class, of race, of money, poor and trivial as they are, have vanished...