Talk:Liberty bond

message: Per WP:TITLE, "Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is almost always capitalized in English (for example, as in proper names and book titles)."  The "bond" in "Liberty Bond" is always capitalized in this article.  That suggests that the title of this article should be "Liberty Bond".  I will change it if there are no objections. --Richard (talk) 00:34, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of article should be "Liberty Bond" 

message: I have reverted the factual information concerning the 4th bond's default deleted by another user. I have also deleted the user's claim that the issue was "affected" by the Gold Reserve Act of 1934 since it is unsourced. The Gold Reserve Act did a number of things, but none of its actions attempted to retroactively change the terms of the 4th Liberty Bond.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by John Chamberlain (talk • contribs) 17:15, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gold Reserve Act of 1934 

message: Since the apparent objective of the previous editor who attempted to delete information out of the default notice for the 4th Liberty Bond was to somehow show there was a legal basis for the default I have added a paragraph concerning the legal basis for the technical default which was House Joint Resolution 192, not the Gold Reserve Act as the previous editor erroneously implied. Moreover, this resolution was later ruled unconstitutional as the references show. For those who are interested in the legalities of this decision essentially what happened is that the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had acted unconstitutionally in trying to disavow the gold redemption, but that the plaintiff had no claim because he could not prove he had been harmed. John Chamberlain (talk) 17:38, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal Basis of the Technical Default 

message: One serious flaw with the article as it stands now is that it claims the Treasury raised $17 billion dollars for the war effort with the Liberty Bonds. This figure was apparently calculated by adding up the amounts of the issues. It is manifestly incorrect, however, to do this, because some of the issues were convertible. For example, most of the 1st bond for 3.5% was rolled over into the 4% bond. So only a fraction of the 2nd bond was new money, the majority was just rolled over 3.5% bonds. Also, the figure does not take into account secret discounts the Treasury undoubtedly offered brokers to move the bonds, nor does it deduct the enormous expenses of advertising and distributing the bonds. I have not attempted to make these calculations but at some point this should be done to come up with a more realistic gauge of the financial impact of the bonds. John Chamberlain (talk) 23:50, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convertibility Issue 

message: Apparently there is at least one case of a man convicted for the crime of not owning a Liberty bond, as in the Tulsa Outrage article, but there is no direct citation. Since this article is more active, I would like to ask if editors have come across any kinds of legal oddities about Liberty bonds or unusually restrictive (by modern standards) local laws. SamuelRiv (talk) 20:34, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local laws 

message: 1.) amount of propaganda ressources
for example:
"Speaking Campaign for Fourth Liberty Loan Starts Today
Washington, Sept. 22. The speaking campaign on behalf of the fourth Liberty loan, Which opens formally next Saturday, will start
tomorrow. Forty thousand four-minute men, 20,000 others working under direct supervision from the central Liberty loan organization, and at least 50,000 volunteer speakers, who will travel in automobiles from village to village. Each of. 24 war exhibit trains is to carry a squad of speakers, including many American and allied soldiers recently returned from the fighting front. Among the speakers booked are Vice President Marshall, Secretaries Daniels, Lane and McAdoo, former President Taft, James
W. Gerard, William J. Bryan, William Allen White, Opie Read and Meredith Nicholason. Scores of representatives and senators will
campaign for the loan." 
source:Omaha daily bee., September 23, 1918, Page 5, Image 5
2.) Terror campaign against "slackers" etc. supported by Wilson-government to force neutral Americans into signing war bonds and register for draft. 
source: "American Midnight" 77.3.125.236 (talk) 02:04, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing important informations