Word: payments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost, but not quite, everyone in Washington was all steamed up and happy about the historic visit. Senator Borah suggested that someone should remind King George about Britain's $85.000,000 War debt payment which she is defaulting as usual this month. California's Senator Downey said he would be too busy with "American business" to join his colleagues in receiving Their Majesties in the Capitol rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative...
...were premiums, given to her by the U. S. Government. They also could be "spent" at any grocery, but only for farm produce officially listed as surplus: butter, eggs, flour, cornmeal, prunes, dried beans, citrus fruits. Grocers who took Miss McFiggins' stamps, or wholesalers who accepted them as payment from retailers, can cash them for ordinary money at any bank, for they are drafts on the U. S. Treasury...
During the next seven days, negotiations will be carried on between the company and the drivers. Sole bargaining rights have been given to the C.I.O. union, but a closed shop was omitted. The company was also successful in avoiding the proposed check-off system, which provides for employer payment of union dues...
...history, he says. "I foresee a day when some Congressmen, not a wildcat but a man grounded in American history, faithful to the memory of John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren and Lincoln, a man grounded in monetary horse sense and practical national finance will propose stamp scrip as payment for all new government expenditures, and for the payment of such part of their employees' salaries as they normally spend on their current expenses...
...Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a sudden switch of plans: Their Majesties would travel not on the Repulse but on the prosaic, old, German-built liner Empress of Australia, known as the Tirpitz before she was handed over to Britain by Germany as part of reparations payment after the World...