Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poincare, "I am most skeptical that such a loan will ever be repaid...
...banking idea. President Mitchell had announced that this bank (biggest in the U. S.) would loan $50 to $1,000 at 6% interest to responsible employed persons, with no other security than their own signatures and the endorsement of two respectable friends. (All such loans to be repaid within a year.) Under such conditions the crowd outside the National City's office yearned to borrow. They were accommodated...
...Arthur J. Morris, lawyer of Norfolk, Va., founded the first "Morris Plan" bank there. It loaned money at 7% interest to honest employed persons. Borrowers repaid loans by monthly installments. Now there exist "Morris Plan" banks in 109 cities. They have injured the usury business...
...current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral Bristol repaid with a Pittsburgh repast...
...stocks, which it held. But Prudential Securities was created to help Mr. Seiberling, not to profit. Therefore, slight Mr. Seiberling and bulky Mr. Davis met in the Cleveland lawyers' office last week and dissolved the company. This relieved Mr. Davis of his $5,000,000 guarantee and it repaid him his $500,000 cash. Mr. Seiberling and lawyers tried to persuade him to accept interest on his money. He refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship." Mystic and baron clasped hands. And an "obligation is an obligation" to Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, president of Reuben...