Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what a predicament you have placed me in. Shooting is not free in New York State like it is down in Kentucky, so I am afraid to come up there and "crack down on you," to borrow the language recently used by a sure enough full-grown American citizen, officer and gentleman. Neither can I send you a challenge to fight a duel, which would be the gentlemanly thing to do, because no one down in Old Kentucky can hold an office until he swears that he has neither fought a duel nor accepted a challenge to fight...
...lady evangelist for young Dude, Jeeter for the evangelist. An external plot arrives in the person of a bank agent come to put Jeeter off the land. For the $100 annual rent required, Jeeter sends Son Dude off in his new car in an unsuccessful attempt to borrow the money from another son. The car runs over Mother Ada. As she dies, Jeeter nabs Pearl with a view to selling her back to her husband for the rent money. Slyly claiming a mother's right, dying Ada embraces Pearl, bites Jeeter's hand. Pearl escapes...
...declining dollar damage the bond market on which the Government counts heavily to finance the New Deal, vacationing Secretary of the Treasury Woodin piped: "I must seriously criticize Dr. Sprague for the assertion he practically makes that the U. S. Treasury is placed in a position where it must borrow several billion dollars from the people on bad securities. In any way to suggest that U. S. Government bonds are or can be or will be in any sense bad securities is not only a reflection on the wealth and integrity of this country and its people, but impeaches...
...years, the University has assumed a greater responsibility towards the needy student than ever before. The most striking manifestation of this heightened interest in financially needy undergraduates is the provision of emergency jobs for those who have neither the scholastic standing to obtain scholarships nor the desire to borrow money from the Loan Fund. While all men above Group VI have been eligible for the positions, it was found possible to place only one hundred and thirty-eight of the two hundred and eighty-five that applied. In spite of this failure to cover the entire need, however, the innovation...
Money. For weeks Inventor Edward R. Armstrong & backers have been trying to borrow $30,000,000 from Public Works Administration to build five seadromes and string them out to Spain by way of the Azores. Aside from obvious national advantages to the U. S. the application cited such claims...