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Liberty loan

American  

noun

  1. any of the five bond issues of the U.S. government floated in World War I.


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In 1913 he was president of Colorado Taxpayers' Protective League-in 1917, chairman of the Mountain division of the Liberty loan campaign.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last I heard about this man he was said to have refused Liberty loan salesmen to solicit in his factory.”

From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor

But the Liberty loan was an appeal to the million—to several millions; to the man in the street, the small tradesman, the salaried class.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

June 15—First Liberty loan closes with large over-subscription.

From America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

Not a cent of the Liberty loan went out of the country.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

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