First big RFC loan paid in full to the last dollar
The 90 million RFC loan to Central Trust in Chicago, engineered after a bank run, proved the loan justified as major banks recovered. Hoover pursued relief without RFC aid but finally authorized the currency rush. Insull’s downfall and the structure of future government spending are warned against as dangerous, top heavy bets.
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Central Trust
Charles Dawes
Chicago
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
RFC
Treasury
Dawes
Samuel Insull
Insull
Babel
Congress
Roosevelt Churchill eight points sea conference dialogue
The excerpt features Luke and Elmer Twitchell debating the Roosevelt Churchill sea conference and the eight point program. They compare it to golf, note dramatic publicity, speculate on Hitler’s reaction, and suggest a ninth point about not sleeping in a bowling alley. The piece blends satire with wartime political commentary and a poem snippet ending with Athens under Nazi orders.
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Luke Twitchell
Elmer
Wilson
Roosevelt
Woodrow
Luke
John Powers
John Bull
Uncle Sam
Friends of Freedom
Churchill
British Empire
London
United States
Washington
Gabriel Heatter
McCoy
Hitler
Biltz
Winston
Frankie
Athens
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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