Word: moratoriumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next to the Baruch plan, the most arresting proposal the Commission heard last week came from New York's swart little Congressman Fiorello Henry La Guardia. A War aviator, Representative La Guardia wanted a constitutional amendment to allow a wartime Government to declare a moratorium, nationalize all industry, ration the entire civil population and conscript everyone "from Texas Guinan to J. P. Morgan." Ships, railroads, everything would be taken over without compensation and returned later to their owners without damage payments. Testified this Republican insurgent...
...Smack in the face of the House, soon after it convened, James Henry Thomas, Laborite Minister for the Dominions, hurled the announcement that Australia had just been granted a two-year moratorium on repayment of her War debt to Great Britain...
This action rank-&-file Laborites hope and suspect is the prelude to a request by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden for a two-year moratorium on the British debt to the U. S. Last week's moratorium rewards the Australian Government for its prompt action three weeks ago in making good to British bondholders the default of New South Wales (TIME, April...
Nationalist strategy will be to block dissolution if possible, try to capture the House of Representatives by splitting off supporters of Mr. Scullin. During the week Great Britain helped out harassed Australia by granting her a timely moratorium...
...cannot be often enough stated that the word 'moratorium,' which unfortunately has been employed so much to indicate an exercise of the limited right of Germany to postponement of payments under the Young Plan, has led to the wrong and misleading notion that Germany is striving for cessation of payments...