Word: terest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jacob S. Coxey, "General" of the famed tatterdemalion army of unemployed that marched from Ohio on Washington in 1894, still full of fight at 91, gave a Chicago isolationist gathering something to wrestle with: "The Government takes 20% out of your salary to pay you in terest on the 10% you have deducted from your salary to buy bonds. . . . Then they have to tax the people so the Government can pay interest to the banks, so the banks will support Government bonds upon which money is issued...