Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debt Moratorium...
...International Match. The committee continued to hint it would sue the U. S. bankers for misrepresentation, ask them to rescind the sale of Kreuger & Toll bonds. In Stockholm bullish Swedes who hoped Swedish Match was still sound were dismayed last week when the company was granted a three-month moratorium. But they chuckled at an example of Ivar Kreuger's shrewdness which auditors stumbled upon in his private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then...
...repeal of the 18th Amendment and Government sale of liquor. Other plans: U. S. recognition of Soviet Russia, participation in the League of Nations, ten billion dollars worth of Federal unemployment relief and public works, cancellation of War debts, increased inheritance, personal and corporation income taxes, a two-year moratorium on foreclosures and tax sales of homes and farms...
...planks in the Club's platform stand for the unification of divorce and marriage laws under federal supervision. General centralization of power is advocated in regard to incorporation laws. It also supports the entrance of the United States into the World Court, and the extension of the war debt moratorium for an additional five years...
Depression drove President Hoover to put Reparations back again into politics with his Moratorium (TIME, June 29 et seq.) Thereupon German payments ceased and BIZ would have had to shut up shop had it been only or mainly the cash register of Reparations. Instead BIZ has never been busier than at present and is today the World Bank. In softly burring Scotch last week BIZ President McGarrah announced a BIZ profit of 15,182,819 Swiss francs ($2.930,000) or 4,000,000 Swiss francs ($772,000) more than last year...