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...foreign balances convertible into gold nestling coyly in vaults in New York and elsewhere, though, it must be confessed hardly collecting tarnish there. In support of this view may be adduced the seeming abundance of the wherewithal to purchase back her foreign bonds previously depressed first, by partially substituting scrip for gold payment on interest, and then defaulting entirely upon maturity of the securities...
...Fathers much out of place, dubs them the "Funding Fathers." When Congress decided, during Alexander Hamilton's treasuryship, to redeem at par value the nearly worthless certificates with which the Revolutionary Army had been paid, fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys who remember that Patrick Henry asked for liberty or death have been...
Further refinements, such as state pensions for the aged, blind, widowed, or otherwise incapacitated, a great increase in the property tax on parcels worth over $5,000, a 50 per cent inheritance tax and a stiffly graduated income tax, the substitution of scrip for money, etc., are incidental to the main project, which Sinclair expects to work out with such rapidity that after two years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that...
...privately-owned acres open to hunters of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys. The gunner pays the farmer not more than $4 a day or 25^ per acre per season. Georgia's game commission has begun sending out lists of game farms. - Nebraska and Colorado have a scrip scheme whereby hunters pay farmers one coupon for each bird shot, the coupons being sold and cashed by the State. Iowa has banned all quail shooting for 17 years. New Jersey's northern counties have been closed to it for some ten years. This autumn New Jersey will allow farm-raised...
Like ''blocked marks," the new scrip is a scheme to stimulate German business at the expense of creditors of the Fatherland willing to take a loss. To get on the Gold Discount Bank's "preferred" list a German exporter will theoretically have to show that he can meet "cutthroat foreign competition" only by receiving the scrip subsidy...