Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first applies to the Housing Administration for a contract under which the Government "insures" its building loans up to 20%. When this contract is issued, the bank can lend from $100 to $2.000 to a local property owner to modernize his home. The borrower need put up no collateral beyond his own good name in the community. The size of his loan is limited to one-fifth of his income. Repayments can be made in installments up to three years. In case of default the U. S. will pay the bank 20 cents on each lost dollar under the "insurance...
Last week viceregal Mr. Knox informed the League that the Saar is "beyond control" by any means at his disposal. He is able to maintain only nominal control, he hinted, because of his right to call in French troops and the fear of Germany that he may do so. If the plebiscite is to be held on schedule, declared President Knox, the League must act on his repeated request to be supplied with at least 2,000 armed men to put the Saar under virtual martial law while the vote is taken...
...This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they insist, because in 1935 the U. S., Britain and Japan must, by treaty, hold a Naval Conference to alter or prolong the 5-5-3 ratio between their navies beyond...
...opinion . . . the NRA retains the bulk of the public support. Why, in such a situation, we do not have an undivided press is beyond me. I have seen news garbled, suppressed and colored and I have seen able young men prostituting their talents in libelous and misleading stories pandered as news at the behest of opinionated bosses...
...journalistic inquiries into the Depression and such remedies as the Hoover Administration was applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another at Georgetown...