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    A liberty bond or liberty loan was a war bond that was sold in the United States to support the Allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to the bonds...
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    worked closely with the Committee on Public Information in developing Liberty Bond campaigns. The resulting propaganda messages often borrowed heavily from...
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  • The Bond is a two-reel propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Loan Committee for theatrical release to help sell...
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    Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New...
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    his rights to building One (and its pro-rata share of the above-noted Liberty Bond funds), and allocated a portion of the insurance proceeds to the rebuilding...
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    The Third Liberty Loan Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 65–120) was a liberty bond sold during World War I that helped cover the war expenses...
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    Joseph Pennell's 1918 prophetic Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of a bombed New York City, totally engulfed in a firestorm. At the time...
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  • has been in effect since 1917 when the US Congress passed the Second Liberty Bond Act. Before 1917 there was no debt ceiling in force, but there were parliamentary...
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  • The Bond (2007 book), an American autobiography written by The Three Doctors The Bond, a 1918 film by Charlie Chaplin supporting Liberty bonds Bond International...
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  • Lillian Gish in a Liberty Loan Appeal is a 1918 American silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith. Produced to support the Liberty bond drive of 1918...
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  • The Knights of Liberty (sometimes Liberty Knights, Loyalty Knights, or Knights of Loyalty) was an American volunteer nationalist secret society and vigilance...
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  • War I--during which Warshawsky injected himself and his firm into the Liberty Bond campaign. The onset of World War I saw demand for auto parts grow exponentially...
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    announced in 2012 that he would refinance the building with a $452.8 million Liberty bond issue and a $125 million commercial mortgage-backed security loan. At...
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    Columbia (personification) (category Liberty symbols)
    World War I, the name Liberty Bond for savings bonds was heavily publicized, often with images from the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World)...
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    their dead in order to obtain lubricants; and all the rest." The fourth Liberty bond drive of 1918 employed a "Remember Belgium" poster depicting the silhouette...
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    Douglas Fairbanks. They toured the U.S. together in 1918 to promote Liberty Bond sales for the World War I effort. Around this time, Pickford also suffered...
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    proclaimed that they were payable in gold, and at least one, the fourth Liberty Bond, was a federal instrument. The plaintiffs in all cases received paper...
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    The Liberty Bell, previously called the State House Bell or Old State House Bell, is an iconic symbol of American independence located in Philadelphia...
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    Joseph Pennell's 1918 Liberty bond poster calls up the pictorial image of an invaded, burning New York City....
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    war against Germany, Sess. 1 ch. 1, 40 Stat. 1 April 24, 1917: First Liberty Bond Act, Sess. 1, ch. 4, 40 Stat. 35 May 12, 1917: Enemy Vessel Confiscation...
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  • Liberty University (LU), known simply as Liberty, is a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is affiliated with the Southern...
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  • Congress modified the method by which it authorized debt in the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917. Under this Act, Congress established an aggregate limit...
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    (Soldier Escorting Woman). The painting, initially sold at a World War I Liberty bond auction, later sold for $543,000 at a May 7, 2021, fine art auction....
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    history of decade online Sutch, Richard. "The Fed, the Treasury, and the Liberty Bond Campaign–How William Gibbs McAdoo Won World War I." Central Banking in...
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    on the Liberty bond offering in early 2011. The vote was delayed after several institutional investors objected to the fact that the Liberty bonds would...
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    is holding his beard and looking down at liberty bonds. To the left of this image it reads, "Buy a Liberty Bond!" on some editions. The song was written...
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  • citation for his patriotic speeches during Broadway show intermissions for Liberty Bond drives during World War I. He was a graduate of Columbia College, where...
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  • arrested IWW members were convicted of either vagrancy or failure to own a Liberty Bond (the second of which was not a crime). Frank Ryan, another IWW member...
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    Ralph Peters The War in 2020 (1991) Ralph Peters Cauldron (Bond novel) (1993) by Larry Bond Tomorrow series (1993–1999) by John Marsden Debt of Honor (1994)...
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    patriotic causes by giving concerts and participating enthusiastically in Liberty Bond drives. The tenor had shown himself to be a shrewd businessman since...
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