Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a balance of $3,600,000 remaining due on the $9,000,000 J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to Cuba, Partner Thomas S. Lament was in Havana last week. He seemed to set off no fireworks by proposing to the Mendieta Government repayment at the rate of $900,000 each July 1. Fortnight ago all Cuba cheered a Government commission which cracked down on Chase National Bank by advising President Mendieta to repay nothing on Chase's share of $60,000,000 worth of bonds floated in the U. S.-advice as to which the President prudently made...
Thirty-one years ago the Iron Mountain Railroad (now part of the Missouri Pacific) floated a 30-year bond issue with the promise to repay the bonds when due in U. S. gold coin "of the present standard of weight and fineness." In May 1933 when the bonds were due, Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. demanded payment in gold or its equivalent in dollars. When this was refused, the bank took the question into Federal Court in St. Louis. Later Bankers Trust tried to withdraw its suit, but Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris refused permission, on the ground that...
...drought of 1930 did not deliver its full impact of human misery until the following autumn and winter. Recalling the volunteer assistance which South Dakota gave Arkansas in those terrible times, Editor W. T. Sitlington of the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat called upon the farmers of his State to repay a "mercy debt." Taking the cue, Governor J. Marion Futrell of Arkansas declared : "Gratitude calls upon the people of Arkansas who are able to do so, to show their appreciation and to show that they never forget a friend." Last week 20 carloads of hay, cotton seed meal and cake...
...estranged daughter and her son, and a harmless professor are all brought together at the end to form one big, happy family. There is an excellent short of hunting coyotes by airplane. A whimateal cartoon, "Robin Hood" and a Thelma Todd comedy complete a bill that will well repay a few hours snatched from the last-minute cram...
Last week big-hearted William Meringer was in Dublin with his wife and two children, doing his level best to repay destiny. He told Dublin relief workers to round up 700 poor gossoons and colleens. These he sat down to a great dinner in the City Hall. The piece de resistance: hasenpfeffer...