The form of the loan gave rise to some debate: should it be amortisable (bonds) or perpetual (rentes)? And if amortisable, should the French government sweeten the issue(s) by making it a lottery loan and drawing for premiums as well as amortisation?

The majority railroaded the bill through parliament, without the customary expert studies which would delay it till after the elections.

Smith’s book is of decisive importance because what it seeks to show is that the concept of “religion” as a demarcatable system of doctrines-scriptures-beliefs,[…].

[…] Sykewar was not conceived, in [P. M. A.] Linebarger's felicitous phrase, as warfare psychologically waged.