Word: planned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Treasury, particularly, "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton, cannot afford to indulge in wishful thinking. Financiers were inclined, last week, to be instructed, rather than startled by what financial writers called Secretary Mellon's "bold" plan for refinancing the Third Liberty Loan which matures in September. With the money market hitting its highest since 1920 Secretary Mellon offered to exchange 3⅛% bonds for the 4¼% Third Liberty Bonds, which mature in September. He gave the new bonds a life of 12 to 15 years. Like most Government securities, they were only...
...retirement plan for the Third Liberties was consistent with Secretary Mellon's retirement of Second Liberties last year. In June, 1927, about one-sixth of the 4¼% Second Liberties, then outstanding, were retired by an issue of 16-to-20 year bonds, bearing only 3⅛%. This year's offer was to retire at 3⅛% as many 4¼% Third Liberties as people cared to bring in for exchange, and besides to sell for cash $250,000,000 worth of the 3⅛% bonds, or about one-fifth the amount of Third Liberties outstanding...
...league. It is merely a group of paid superintendents. The Anti-Saloon League has engaged in a number of shady political deals which have discredited it." Mr. Colvin, who was in Chicago arranging for the Prohibition Party's annual convention there this week, said that the Prohibition plan this year would be to back a Dry Democrat who might hamper Smith's progress in one or more States in the Solid South...
Captains Kubala and Idzikowski, Polish aviators who plan a non-stop flight from Paris to New York, desired a talisman of potency and might. They made supplication therefore to the Premier of Poland for permission to paint his name on their plane. Last week, Marshal Pilsudski graciously consented...
...points west-the points being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head of the Packard Motor Agency of Shanghai. He and his companions plan to hunt bear, elk, antelope; to meet and visit Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews somewhere in the Gobi