Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore, when Sir Leo Chiozza Money came up for trial, last week, in Marlborough Street Police Court, patriotic Britons hoped against hope that he would be able to vindicate his honor and unsmirch in some degree the deplorable record of the Knightage and Hyde Park...
Heart Disease. The actual money loss from heart disease during the average lifetime is $21,000,000,000 for the U. S.; the loss from tuberculosis $27,000,000,000.-Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan. The strain, stress and storm of modern life is increasing the number of heart disease invalids. Alcohol, tobacco, coffee, do not seem to have a bad effect on the heart, as is commonly supposed. Nor do athletics necessarily cause enlargement of the heart. European studies show that oarsmen, skiers and cyclists are the only athletes with hearts affected by their exertions. Overeating and obesity...
People have always needed money for personal emergencies. If they had no property real or personal to hypothecate, they could borrow on their personal credit only from usurers, who charged 20% and more interest...
...Arthur J. Morris, lawyer of Norfolk, Va., founded the first "Morris Plan" bank there. It loaned money at 7% interest to honest employed persons. Borrowers repaid loans by monthly installments. Now there exist "Morris Plan" banks in 109 cities. They have injured the usury business...
...Morris Plan" banks made enterprising bankers study the field. In New York City the National City group made surveys ; in Buffalo the Marine Trust group (Chairman Elliott C. McDougal, President George Franklin Rand,* Vice-President, Seymour H. Knox). Last week the Marine Trust announced that it would loan money at 6%, without security, to salaried persons. Mr. Mitchell's National City had anticipated Buffalo...