Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, the wink of the old eye, and a broad smile. If you walk the whole length of the bank and repeat these motions without any recognition, immediately change to the "information" method; approach a lass and ask her the whereabouts of Hunt Hall or the Union. That failing, borrow your roommate's car, a police whistle, and several companions and cruise along Memorial Drive, making as much turmoil as is legally possible...
...particular hardship on hard-pressed policyholders who need protection, can afford to pay for protection alone but are temporarily unable to spare the additional savings called for by the contract and no longer able to pass a physical examination for a new policy if the old is lapsed. To borrow on a policy to pay premiums amounts to borrowing at, say, 6% to invest...
...brilliant legal argument" made by John W. Davis, attorney for the AP; no reference whatsoever was made as to counsel for the respondent. I was present in the bar section of the Court room during the submission of the case and heard the carefully prepared, and if I may borrow the expression, "brilliant legal argument" of one Charles E. Wyzanski, counsel for the Guild; I also listened to the loosely-worded "oration" delivered by John W. Davis in behalf of his client...
Since last December when the U. S. Government inaugurated its policy of "sterilizing" gold purchases, the Treasury has bought and put in cold storage more than $600,000,000 worth of yellow metal. The Treasury not only receives no return on this huge deadweight investment; it has to borrow the money to carry it. What has been happening, in effect, is that the U. S. has been buying most of the world's output of newly-mined gold. And this fact is the nub of logic in recurring reports about the U. S. dropping its gold buying price. Having...
...attention of the Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington last week came two of the most remarkable registration statements ever filed. Having reshuffled the major provinces of his tangled empire, William Randolph Hearst proposed to borrow $35,500,000 from the public-$13,000,000 for Hearst Magazines Inc., $22,500,000 for Hearst Publications, Inc., which included two radio stations, nine dailies and the Sunday-supplement American Weekly. By no means did Mr. Hearst tell all. Although the registrations took in the entire string of Hearst magazines they covered only one-third of the Hearst newspapers, included nothing on such...