Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inter-gang hatreds of the underworld. Assistant U. S. Prohibition Administrator Fred D. Silloway was quick to make capital of the Clark Street scene, with the flat accusation that real policemen had done the "job" as a disciplinary measure to gangsters who had failed to pay up promised "hush money...
...represented in the conjunction of the Lindbergh tradition and the House of Morgan. The late Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. (1860-1924) was a "radical" Congressman from Minnesota. At least "radical" is the word that J. Pierpont Morgan must have thought of when Charles Augustus Lindbergh Sr. was abusing the "Money Trust" and helping to precipitate the Congressional investigation...
...interested spectator during the crusade against the "Money Trust" at that time was Dwight Whitney Morrow. He was then a member of an old Manhattan law firm. In 1914 he became a partner of J. P. Morgan...
...year, the French $800,000,000, and the German only $600,000,000, even so, said Dr. Schacht, it is paradoxically true that Germany is the most heavily taxed country of all. Reason: while the Briton's and the Frenchman's tax money is spent at home, to his indirect enrichment, the German's tax payments are largely wrested from the Fatherland in the form of Reparations thus impoverishing instead of enriching, as all other nations...
...billion-dollar loan to France and England would seem picayune. This project is spoken of as "Commercializing" the German reparations debt. By this is meant (TIME, Oct. 29) that long term "reparations bonds" may be issued against the resources of the German State, sold to the public, and the money used to pay off at once Germany's debt to the Powers...