Word: payment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schwab's "boy," Eugene Gifford Grace, President of Bethlehem. He told that Shearer had been hired by S. W. Wakeman, vice-president of Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., without his knowledge or approval. When he heard that Shearer was propagandizing: "I told Wakeman to get rid of him. Wakeman said another payment was due Shearer. I told him to make it immediately...
...Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company showed 145% increased earnings, and I do not suppose this includes Mr. Shearer's payment...
Firstly Her Majesty recalled that The Hague Conference quarrel ended, if not amicably, at least in a formal agreement by the Great Powers to adopt the Young Plan which will take the payment of German Reparations out of politics and put it on a business basis. "Great is our joy that the Conference achieved this success!" cried Queen Wilhelmina...
...Right Honorable Philip Snowden calling the British Empire," began the radio announcer. Then came the querulous shrill voice of Snowden: "I want first to repeat my belief that payment of Reparations and War Debts is financially and economically impossible without inflicting injuries on the European debtors and creditors alike.* But I told them at The Hague: 'So long as there are payments we mean to get our share!' That was my bombshell. We had to adjourn for two days to enable the other delegations to recover from the shock...
...they acquired virtually the sanctity of banknotes. Two of the drafts, indeed, were cashed before their illegitimate origin was discovered; on the third?the $225,000 draft to the Pueblo bank?the Chase bank refused payment in order to make a test case, go into court and turn the problem over to the law?or rather the lawyers? of the land. Certainly the defrauded banks were sadly tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that...