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...economy straightened out. He also knows that the European man-in-the-street regarded his moratorium as the first step toward cancelling War debts to the U. S. Such a move has the backing of bankers like Chase National's Albert Wiggin because if foreign governments have to repay their War loans to the U. S., banks like the Chase will have to wait a long time to collect their foreign loans. But Senators like WilHam Edgar Borah of Idaho and Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas were quick to catch up the President when they thought they detected...
First spark of trouble came from swart Communist Senator Maldonado. He rose in the Senate, condemned the monopoly, demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...
...Bewildered by the sum required he managed to raise all but $500 by legitimate means. Then came the fatal step. He took one of the hundreds of negotiable bonds passing through his hands every day, presented it to the broker, saved his account. For twelve years he tried to repay that $500, doubling his stake, multiplying it 20, 30, 100 times. He opened accounts with other brokers to change his luck. His thefts were never discovered because when he stole a bond he also stole the bank's records showing receipt of that bond. If he had to produce...
...Rode, controller and assistant treasurer of International Harvester Company of America, whose office is in Brussels. Mr. Rode and Dr. Owen had words. "Does this mean that your company doubts my bona fides?" drawled Oxonian Owen. Controller Rode stood his ground. On Feb. 12, Dr. Owen contemptuously offered to repay I. H. C., Ltd. out of his own pocket the whole $150,000 they had advanced. Did they really want it, with all that such a transaction would imply? They did. He wrote a check, which they promptly deposited. When next I. H. C., Ltd. saw this bit of paper...
...accident made his scientific career. For the subsequent operation turned his busy, acquisitive, ambitious brain to medicine, then to bacteriology. He learned very easily. So he lazied with geishas, saki, talk and chess. He borrowed money, for his schooling and travels, with amazing ingenuity. He always meant to repay loans, but rarely did with more than gratitude : "I hope the master [who financed most of his vagaries, including steerage passage to San Francisco] will take care of his honorable wife [who sold her precious marriage kimono for his maintenance]. . . . Please remember me to all who have eaten...