Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked if his offer was good for Catholics only, generous Mr. Delia Vecchia replied: "Catholics and Protestants, alike. And I will continue this service as long as I can afford it, because I believe in helping along the churches all I can." Last Sunday was the first Sunday of the new month. Mr. Delia Vecchia received no call for free church rides. Said he: "I don't understand the people of Red Bank. They are either too lazy to get up and go to church, even with free taxi service, or think that there is something crooked or strange...
Farmers' Party: The farmers comprised in this party are mostly the large land owners, the small farmer often belonging to the Labor group or the Republicans. In general it supports the government because the government opposes tariff protection. The farmers argue that they cannot afford protection because it would restrict their markets and increase the cost of agricultural machinery, imported mainly from Great Britain...
After that conference, the Journal of Commerce charged last week, "The little New York group that dominates the Federal Reserve System came to Chicago and tried to induce the directors here [of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank] to cut the [re-discount] rate and afford pretext to New York. The request was flatly and somewhat indignantly refused. borrowed at a low rate, can be reloaned at a slightly higher rate...
...Board last week gave permission to the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank to lower its re-discount rate from 4% to 3½%. This means that banks of the Tenth (Kansas City) Federal Reserve District which belong to the system, can borrow money for 3½% and consequently can afford to loan money to individuals and concerns at a relatively cheap rate. The lowered rate will have one effect of helping the farmers of the Tenth District harvest and ship the season's crops advantageously...
...system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...