Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin it is sometimes popularly supposed that the titanic rivals in U. S. finance are J. P. Morgan & Co. and Dillon, Read & Co. Last week, pink-cheeked, socialistic, optimistic Finance Minister Rudolf Hilfer ding found himself short of cash for year-end budget requirements. He hastily sought to arrange an $100,000,000 loan with Dillon, Read & Co. by cable...
...General at a banquet in Texas ten years ago," said Printer Crawford, "and for the next three or four years I spent a few days every year with him at Juarez where he was a corps commander. He fled from Mexico when Federalist troops were trying to put him in front of a firing squad. Right now he is the most peaceful-minded man in the United States. He has put away his sword and his pistol and is looking for business opportunities-possibly in Chicago. He left my house this morning and I can't say where...
Finance Minister Luiz Montes de Oca's budget for the next Mexican year was recently published. He plans to pay the International Bankers an installment of 26,000,000 pesos ($13,000,000) on what is owed them, whereas in 1929 they received $17,000,000, and the year before $16,250,000. This drastic reduction is accounted for by the Mexican Government's enormous expenditures in putting down the Escobar Revolution and the consequent depletion of Treasury funds. As a Mexican satiric weekly said: "The bankers are silently howling for more money...
Pittsburgh (population: 673,800) calls its chest the Welfare Fund. Last year 60,292 citizens oversubscribed a $960.000 quota by $13,025. This year, under the guidance of busy Joseph C. Dilworth (Dilworth, Porter Steel Co.), 7,777 workers got 61,652 Pittsburghers to give $2,000 more than the $1,168,000 goal...
Lawyer Walter Leslie Stewart, oldtime (1907-09) University of Iowa footballer, swept through ranks of hitherto apathetic Des Moines (population: 151,900) and gained $1,103 more than the $281,552 he had set out for. Last year, in a campaign for $276,075, the citizenry fell short...