Word: payments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high tariff-an old issue but in a new guise. Congressman Cordell Hull, onetime Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, last week issued a statement, as a sort of trial balloon no doubt, linking the high tariff with failure to get 100 cents on a dollar in payment on War debts from Europe. His argument in substance: In settling the Italian Debt the U.S. was forced to agree to such cutting that the U.S. loses from $2,500,000,000 to $3,000,000,000† The reason the Italian Debt was cut was that Italy could not pay more...
...existing high tariff law virtually eliminates the factor of payment in goods by Italy. The new policy which this settlement proposes, therefore, is that as an alternative of cutting our extortionate high tariff to a moderate extent or cutting our foreign debts to a correspondingly greater extent, we adopt the latter course. This policy would, for 62 years, penalize American taxpayers with continued high tariff taxes in the form of increased prices and also with the amount by which the Italian debt has been scaled...
...Genoa the local Coal Exchange launched an appeal to all patriotic Italians to contribute voluntarily "uno dollaro" yearly toward Italy's payment of her debt to the U.S. The plan originally envisioned contributions from five million Italians, which would cover the full yearly payments for the first five years (TIME, Nov. 23). Cried II Duce when he heard of the plan: "Good. But for the present I need only $1,000,000. I shall expect that to be paid...
...This payment establishes a new high record for cash dividend payments by any U. S. corporation in peace times. It approaches the $85,140,668 paid out to its common shareholders by U. S. Steel in 1917. This year, however, Steel is paying them only...
...they dare-sell Canada Dry Ginger Ale short. Some of those temperance-drink shares have done very well by their holders in this year's stock market. Recently the Welch Grape Juice Co. for the first time since February, 1921, resumed common stock dividends by a payment of 25? a share...