Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semicircular little courtroom was crowded with lawyers, Senators, bigwigs, newshawks, as the Supreme Court on four successive days listened to arguments and asked questions about the right of Congress to invalidate "gold clauses" in public and private securities. For years the U. S. Government and most corporations promised to repay lenders their principal and interest "in gold coin of the present standard of weight and fineness." On June 5, 1933 Congress, having authorized the President to suspend the gold standard, forbade the writing of any more gold clauses, declared in effect that all those previously written were legally...
...useless to point out that many of the men elected by them have court convictions to their credit, powerful machines to repay for their services, and no interest in the public office except as a means of furthering their own personal ambition and greed. Confident that they have discharged their obligations as citizens these unimportant details have little interest to the electorate. The will of the people has been emphatically expressed and let no man question the wisdom of its decisions. That indeed is the ideal of the democratic state and adds zest to the "great game of politics...
...returned within eleven months from loan without any charge whatever. Under the agreements with the purchaser, 65,000 shares were sold and delivered to him, the payments being made cash on delivery and every dollar of proceeds going directly to the Company. . . . It was open to the Company to repay by purchase of stock on the market or out of its authorized and unissued stock. Upon proper consideration, the directors made the decision to return from authorized and unissued stock and that was done, after proper registration of the issue for such purpose with the Federal Securities Commission...
From their $1,552,000 fee, Messrs. Haight, Alcock & Goldstein will have to repay their loan from the City of Chicago. High-bracket income taxes will take another $400,000 to $500,000. The division of the remainder was secret, but La Salle Street expected Lawyer Goldstein to receive at least a half for his four-year campaign...
...Methodism sought the money through its women. Methodism got the money from you. Methodism, vised by its geographical Bishop, promised to repay the money owed you. Methodism, in the particular locality which initially owes you, whines its inability to pay its honest debts. Yet, this same sunny California brand of Methodism finds ways to yearly send $65,000 to poke their noses into the business of foreigners-of Chinamen alone, and, if you please, of Chinamen only in Foochow, In that...