Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the most ingenious argument advanced by the Iron Man, last week, sought to prove that the huge U. S. loans made to Germany since the War provide not the best reason why Germany must pay her Reparations debt in full, but rather one of the best reasons why she should not pay. These U. S. bonds, reasoned Dr. Schacht, saddle Germany with the necessity of paying $240,000,000 interest, every year, and that stupendous charge obviously curtails the Reich's ability to continue paying the present $595,000,000 annual scale of Reparations...
Bourbon Morgan. During the U. S. Civil War, Mr. Junius Spencer Morgan of London observed historically to his English banker colleagues...
...spending of that prodigious sum in the U. S. for War supplies was the biggest single event in the annals of U. S. Labor...
Another possible close-in airport is Governor's Island, the army post in New York Bay. Last week the Senate and House conferees on the War Department appropriation bill agreed to prevent construction of army barracks on a bare area of the island...
...place, can't you have them sleep in the garden? This is the third time I have stumbled over one of them.' " She once quoted the Prince of Wales as pleading: " 'Lillie, darling, do not become an American. If you do, it will cause an international war...