Word: money
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Germany swallowed Austria last year, the Bank of England played ball with the Nazis, obligingly turned over to them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into Czecho-Slovakia, the British Government quickly rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing...
...wind of this transaction. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon, to silence the outcry, promised to see what could be done to squelch the deal. Sir John, reporting to Parliament last week, produced no squelcher. Banking ethics, said he, require that a customer's demand for his money be honored without question...
...thousand Czechs were arrested; an unnamed nurse, whom Czechs called a "great patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar and, to cap it all, the Nazis levied a fine of 500,000 crowns ($16,650) on the district. Most of the money, they added, would be taken from Jews and "followers" of Eduard Benes, former President of Czecho-Slovakia...
...Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note...
John Herrmann was a traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...