Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Carolina, 192 U. S. 286.) The U. S. held some of the defaulted bonds in the Indian Trust Fund, but was able to secure payment by virtue of an act of Congress authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold from moneys which the U. S. might owe any defaulting State sufficient amounts to pay the principal and interest of the bonds (U. S. Code Title...
...capita the French now owe a national debt of $466. Just across the Channel every John Bull and his Jane are sunk with a debt of $830-the greatest per capita of any people on earth. Just now France is doing so well that last week she was able to pay back ahead of time $75,000,000 borrowed from Swedes. While Mr. Snowden is forced to raise British taxes, M. Reynaud was able to make last-week a slash of more than $75,000,000. Much of this cut will directly benefit U. S. tourists. The de luxe hotel...
...philosophy of annuities for the superannuated, said forthright President Pritchett: "Society does not owe any man a pension. . . . Any pension under which the beneficiary is provided with an old age annuity without cost or participation by himself is, in the long run, demoralizing to any group of men, however high-minded...
...send me to jail for this? Planters all through the South hold Negroes who work for them and owe them money. I handle Negroes the same way everyone else does. There isn't any other way to handle them. I chained them to trees because I couldn't trust them not to run away...
...uncomforting, uncomfortable common sense. His skepticism, shared tacitly by an intelligent minority of U.S. citizens, he voices in so vigorous and individual a manner that it can be laughed off by many who secretly agree with him. "No one will deny, I take it, that we owe the Rockefeller Institute, at least in part, to certain purely theological tremors in the donor. . . . However . . . this is really not an argument in favor of religion; it is simply an argument against the human race." The U.S. has no Established Church. Says Mencken: "A degenerated form of Calvinism, going under Methodist or Baptist...