Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as the war lasts. Last week, just to make sure, they joined themselves with silver handcuffs. The earlier agreement was to cooperate in the general fields of munitions, raw materials, economic warfare, oil, food, shipping. Last week's agreement covered the commodity which controls all those fields-money...
...demands to German industrialists. Fritz Thyssen refused to obey, was hauled before a French court-martial, was tried and imprisoned for a short time. Thereafter he was a strident nationalist, consistently anti-French. Instead of accepting with resignation the Weimar Republic, which accepted the Versailles Treaty, he put his money for a time on the reactionary Stahlhelm veterans' organization, which was bent on restoring the monarchy...
...chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money, for I'm on my way to Stockholm to receive the Nobel Prize." Pehr Evind Svinhuvud, 78, ex-President of Finland, also enlisted...
...Associated directly, but its good operating company, NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), is trying to borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by Associated as the balance of an $8,700,000 settlement of a $50,000,000 tax claim. Mange wants RFC to lend NY PA NJ enough to pay off the bonds, pay the taxes; he is also asking for another lump for construction, $26,500,000 in all. The catch...
...unlike the Byllesby interests, believes that butter is better than cannon in dealing with the New Deal. Fortnight ago, he hired a new president for Standard, white-haired, McNuttish-looking Leo Thomas Crowley, since 1934 chairman of FDIC. He hired Mr. Crowley through Washington's No. i Big Money employment office, Jesse Jones's RFC, the same office which placed Mr. Crowley's FDIC predecessor, Jones Protege Walter Cummings (TIME, Nov. 27), who heads Chicago's huge Continental Illinois Bank...