Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Fascist law forces sorely vexed Capitalists and landowners in Italy to buy Mussolini bonds up to a figure representing 5% of the value of their property. If they lack cash to buy these radical bonds they are forced to borrow it from the Government, paying interest on the loan. In Russia the financing of Five-Year Plans by forced loans is continually cleaning the pockets of the proletariat. In Germany moderate Adolf Hitler has greatest difficulty in restraining the arrant radicals of the Nazi Party led by such as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who continually agitate to persuade...
...schools in Berlin and Munich, he built his first houses in 1906, by 1910 had already designed an undecorated factory with great screen walls of windows, later a standard practice in the International Style. He was passionately interested in low-cost housing and an architecture that would need to borrow nothing from traditional styles. When the War came, he fought in the Imperial Army, and it was not until after the Armistice that he could get back to his draughting board...
...rich in copper. Charles Hayden proposed to do so not by mining copper but by speculating in copper. Year after graduation he took a $3-a-week job as a "ticker boy" to learn the inside of a broker's office. At 21 he was ready to borrow $20,000 from his father, launch his own brokerage business with his officemate Galen L. Stone, whose Milk Street friends put up another $20,000. Hayden, Stone & Co.'s shrewd "market letter" and energetic ways soon brought it a large and profitable clientele...
...Catherine sat by the deathbed of a son who was also King of France. And again she had one to take his place. Henri III fled from his unwanted job as King of Poland and came home to see what he and his mother could salvage. He had to borrow 100,000 francs from a Florentine merchant to get to his coronation. The sands were rapidly running out. With the help of his maternal adviser and by judicious getaways and judicious murders, Henri managed to hold on to the crown for 14 years. A few months before an assassin...
Since then he has run Argentina's foreign affairs without brooking any interference from General Justo. Shrewd as well as pompous, he frequently works 20 hours, smokes 100 cigarets a day-often any brand he can borrow from his aides...