Word: repaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rates from 0% (for the first five years) to 2% (for the last seven years), but this is done only to save the face of those politicians who have clamored for repayment of every cent of principal. It might just as well be calculated that no principal would be repaid but that interest of from ¼% to 4% would be paid for 62 years...
...Geneva and at Paris diplomats dropped a pregnant word or two anent M. Caillaux's mission. "Set all question of figures and barter aside," said they. "If America expects any sum to be repaid by France over a period of 60 or 70 years, she is deluded. Grey-bearded men, yet unborn will not pay taxes to America in 1980. There was no Italy 60 years ago; will there be a France in 60 more? Sixty-two years ago the dollar was worth only a franc; it may be worth less than that in another...
...Having an extra section instead of a special train saved the Government $1,800. Some said the special section cost the railroad as much as a special train, that the railroad lost the difference in the cost. Even so, it was repaid in advertising. U. S. Presidents customarily used the Pennsylvania in traveling West. When President Harding started on his fatal trip to Alaska, he changed to the B. & O.?allegedly because the Pennsylvania had failed to meet his wishes in a certain labor controversy. Since then, the B. & O. has had the Presidential patronage. Daniel Willard, President...
...Tribuna, Rome journal, Senators Tommaso Tittoni, ex-Foreign Minister (1919) and President of the Senate, counseled reduction of Italy's War debts on the score that the U. S. and Britain made "excess profits" out of war materials. These profits, he held, should not be repaid. Concerning the remainder, he advocated nonpayment of interest, extension over a long period of years of capital payments at the rate of exchange at which the debts were incurred...
Those who have their ear to the ground for musical comedy, will be repaid by listening in on The Student Prince, The Grab Bag, Lady, Be Good; Big Boy, Rose-Marie, Ziegfeld Follies, Music...