Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tradesmen, all needing cash, consented to take one-third of their debts and call it square. As majority creditors with claims of $1,800 against John Doctor they signed an agreement which the judge promptly confirmed. Turning over his cash, car, lot and bond. John Doctor was spared the stigma and expense of a bankruptcy suit, walked out of the courthouse a debt-free...
While I realize no apology can wipe out this stigma I take the liberty of calling it to your attention, that we may be spared a repetition...
Several dozen Frenchmen decided last week that no stigma of default should attach to them. They would pay their share of the $19.000,000 which La Pa trie did not pay on Dec. 15 to les yanquis. Seizing paper & pencil they divided the 480,000,000-franc default by the population of France, 41,000,000, figured that each owed the U. S. between eleven and twelve francs (about 47?), popped this tidy sum into an envelope and mailed it to U. S. Ambassador Walter Evans Edge. Mr. Edge wrote letters to the several dozen Frenchmen, thanked them, returned their...
Since 90% of the German electorate decisively rejected von Papenism at the polls last month, the President's stipulation could not have been fulfilled by any German last week. Plainly it was a trap to embarrass Leader Hitler and stamp him with the stigma of having "failed" to form a Cabinet. Realizing this, ex-Corporal Hitler decided to drop his negotiations with ex-Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg, told his aides to draft a final letter to the President and hied himself to Berlin's State Opera, enjoyed a rollicking performance of Die Meistersinger...
...revision of War debts, revision of the Versailles Treaty to remove from Germany the stigma of sole War guilt, entry into the League of Nations, admission of alien pacifists to citizenship...