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...German industrialists could call their plants their own until 1923, when they were forced to pay 18% for their borrowed money. The banks profited well because they could borrow from their British and U. S. connections† at barely more than 5%. In many cases, concerns could not repay loans, whose interest in less than six years equalled the entire principal. They capitulated to the banks, which became sole owners or at the least, important partners...
...Sing Sing Penitentiary, N. Y., William Hoyer, Negro, waiting in the Death House to repay society for the slaughter of his wife and five-year-old daughter, availed himself of a standing privilege and composed the menu for his Death Feast, the last meal he would ever consume. Mr. Hoyer's menu...
...state and municipal bonds were issued for $1,399,637,992 last year ($1,398,953,100 in 1924 )†. Remaining deficits came from short term borrowings. In general, municipal securities are safe. Some accident of prosperity seems always to occur to make new borrowings possible, if only to repay old ones...
...Treasury set out to combat Franco-British propaganda against "U. S. debt Shylocking" by announcing over Mr. Mellon's signature: 1) that under the Mellon-Berenger agreement, if and when ratified, France will repay a sum roughly equivalent to only her post-War borrowings from the U. S., and may therefore be said to have been forgiven her War debt entire; 2) that "England borrowed a large proportion of its debt to us for purely commercial, as distinguished from War, purposes to save borrowing from its own people." (i. e. Britain deserves no cancellation of these "commercial" camouflaged...
...longer afford to accept the negative testimony that a boy has submitted himself to instruction and has led a life free from obvious iniquity. If college is to train boys for service, we must require positive evidence that our candidates are probably good material who will be likely to repay by future service to the community, the large outlay the college makes to educate them...