scholarly journals Sixth War Loan poster stamps - 'Buy War Bonds' (plate 151)

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
War Bonds

scholarly journals Ethnic Fundraising in America and the Irish and Lithuanian Wars of Independence, 1918–1923

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
R. J. C. Adams ◽  
Vaida Nikšaitė
Keyword(s):  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
War Bonds ◽  
First World

Abstract The close of the First World War signalled a proliferation of newly established nation-states across Europe. However, the unilateral proclamations of these states’ independence did not guarantee their international recognition, nor did it guarantee their financial viability. This article examines the funding of two such states: the unrecognized Lithuanian (1919–23) and Irish (1919–21) republics. Both funded their wars of independence by selling ‘war bonds’ to their respective diasporas in the United States; the Lithuanians raising almost $1.9m from c. 28,000 subscribers and the Irish raising $5.8m from c. 300,000 subscribers. Communication between the organizers of these bond drives was virtually non-existent, but following the example of the US Liberty Loans they employed remarkably similar tactics. Yet, issued by self-proclaimed nation-states with neither territorial integrity nor a credible history of borrowing, the Lithuanian and Irish war bonds promised a return only when the states had received international recognition. In this sense, they were examples of what the authors term Pre-Sovereign Debt. Practically, they were a focal point for agitation for governmental recognition and rousing of American public opinion. Symbolically, they were tangible representations of the Lithuanian and Irish pretensions to statehood.

It Was Cotton Money Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Apartment Buildings ◽  
Financial Speculation ◽  
The World ◽  
Cotton Fields ◽  
War Bonds ◽  
Egyptian Cotton

Yaʿqūb Ṣarrūf’s first foray in the novel genre, Fatāt Miṣr (The Girl of Egypt) was serialized as a literary supplement to Al-Muqtaṭaf over the course of 1905. A tale of finance capital’s restless wandering in Egyptian cotton fields, Cairo apartment buildings, Japanese war bonds, and the stock markets of the world -- from London, to St. Petersburg, Tokyo and back to Cairo --, Fatāt Miṣr met with critical praise upon its initial publication. Soon forgotten, the novel has been left unread by Arabic literary critics, despite the prescient augury it held for how a culture of speculation in Arabic would culminate in Egypt less than two years later in the stock and real estate crash of 1907. Indeed, the plot of Fatāt Miṣr owes much to Ṣarrūf’s own personal financial speculation in Egyptian land.

Home Front

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian M. Pleasants
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The State ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
World War ◽  
Selective Service ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
War Bonds

Home Front tells about the extraordinary transformation of North Carolina as a result of World War II. Emphasis is on the large number of military bases; selective service; rationing and the sale of war bonds; German submarine warfare off the coast; women in the war; racial issues; German prisoners of war in the state; North Carolina’s heroes; and the contributions made by the textile, tobacco, farming, shipbuilding, and lumber industries during the war.

“Buying Our Boys Back”: The Mass Foundations of Fiscal Citizenship in World War II

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
James T. Sparrow
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
War Bonds ◽  
Special Meaning

Just after 8:00 in the morning on Tuesday, September 21, 1943, the singer and radio star Kate Smith addressed her national audience with a personal story that set the tone for the marathon bond drive she would conduct over the next eighteen hours. In her usual self-effacing manner, she began by recounting the words of a man whose speech at a recent bond rally in Utica, New York, held special meaning for her audience:You know, friends, when we buy War Bonds, we're not buying tanks and guns and shells and planes. What we're really doing is buying our boys back … bringing them home to us, safe and sound once again. Now I know there isn't a person listening to me who wouldn't give everything he has to buy his boy back. … I'd give anything … all my money, or my health, or my own life … to buy my boy back from the War. But I'm afraid I can't do that now. You see, I got a telegram from Washington this morning. My boy isn't coming back.

Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda

2006 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 928-929
Author(s):  
A. M. Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Home Front ◽  
War Bonds

“This Is My War, Too”

Home Front ◽  
2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
War Effort ◽  
War Bonds ◽  
The Military

North Carolina women made many important contributions to the war effort—without women the war could not have been won. Women became emancipated by taking the skilled jobs of men off to war—they were riveters, flew planes, made steel, served as nurses, and produced munitions. At the same time, they volunteered for the Red Cross and Travelers Aid; made blankets, bought war bonds, worked at the USO Club, and raised a family. Some joined the military in the WACS, WAVES, SPARS, and WASPS.

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