Word: return
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then consolidated in a ten-point broadside against the plan. In a public letter to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he contended that export debentures would: 1) Be a $200,000,000 per year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export market; 7) necessitate further tariff revision; 8) invite foreign retaliations...
Matheson. A bright sun was shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
Among the other gifts the George G. Wheelock Holiday Fund is the most unusual. Established by W. H. Wheelock '98, of New York City, in memory of his father, it will enable a few boys who could not otherwise make the trip to return to their homes for vacations...
After completing a week of spring practice interrupted by frequent rains, the University soccer team will oppose the M. I. T. booters at the Technology field this afternoon. Next Saturday, the Engineers will play a return game at Soldiers Field...
...grand scale. American holders of German securities might have to stand large losses, or unnecessary loss of confidence on their part might produce liquidation which would be disastrous to German borrowing. Nations which find Germany a good market for their goods, and secure from Germany many necessary goods in return, would be injured. The problems of Allied debt payment would be sharpened. Allied budgets, dependent on reparation payments, would be endangered...