Word: tartest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporting sorry figures to its stock-lolders, many a company took occasion to snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...
Again France was the largest defaulter, $22.200.927, the others being Poland ($5,408.292), Belgium ($2,859,454) and Estonia ($435,408). King Albert's little Belgium again sent the tartest note to the U. S. State Department, snapped that she signed her debt agreement only after verbal assurances in Washington that her payments to the U. S. would be "amply covered by German reparations payments" shut off by the Hoover Moratorium...