Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insull concerns. Because the loans were made to different units in the system, they were not in violation of the Illinois law forbidding loans to one company in excess of 15% of capital funds. But that his bank had violated the spirit of the law Banker Dawes did admit. The collateral securing the loans was put up by Central Republic for its $90,000,000 R. F. C. loan last summer. Banker Dawes concluded: "I think a feeling of sadness should come over any banker who had a part in the negotiation of loans to the Insuil utility companies...
...hearing was to decide whether to admit the bill which was filed later than the usual date to the present session of the Legislature. Mayor Russell stated that not prosperity but disaster was just around the corner for the city unless reductions were made. He cited that last year 15 vacancies in the staff were filled without good reason, and that 34 new appointments were made. H. J. Mahoney of Cambridge assailed the present system for the personal as well as the principle which allows the board to control their own budget. "It is a menace to good government...
Fanciers reluctantly admit that, though not so common as in former years, foul play is occasionally employed by ambitious or jealous dog exhibitors. Few years ago one tried to keep a rival from handling her dogs in the judging ring by sending a telegram falsely announcing her son's death...
Madame Leider has been a big drawing-card since her début as Isolde (TIME, Jan. 23).* The Metropolitan management was so fearful that news of last week's incident might hurt her reputation that it refused to admit her voice had failed her, that because she had felt dizzy and ill all through the performance Soprano Dorothee Manski had been stationed in the wings to ghost for her in just such an emergency...
...accepted its proper fate in an economic and social emergency whose trends are too rapid for mass regulation. Centralization of authority in the hands of a Prime Minister with a clear majority in the Commons has caused no dictator baiting. But our representatives have a stubborn reluctance to admit that their own leadership in the crisis has vacillated long enough, and cling pitiably to the purse strings which have of late constituted their chief claim to importance...