Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hire the recommendation-bristling Brown, I accepted his invitation to join him at a beer, paid for the three he drank (10? each), marveled at his tales of working with big-time newsmen on the old N. Y. World, pleaded insolvency when he wanted to borrow a dollar with a fine-looking gold watch as security...
...everything from a courageous demonstration of political independence to a smart New Deal bid for business votes, Chairman Eccles' decision was generally approved by bankers big & little. Excess reserves are pretty evenly distributed, but a few banks will feel the pressure of the Eccles brake and have to borrow to build up reserves to the new requirements. These bankers will undoubtedly howl "Deflation...
...Pledge Brown asked if he might not do a similar piece from a new angle for Review of Reviews. Editor Page asked when he could finish it. Pledge Brown answered that he was so full of his subject that he could write it in an hour if he could borrow a typewriter. Editor Page "gave him a desk and some copy paper and some cigarets. He went into a brief trance and then started typing at a furious rate. In about 45 minutes . . . he was done. . . and gave me ten or a dozen sheets of typescript. These I read quickly...
Into an Oklahoma City pawnshop stepped a pretty young woman to borrow money on a wedding ring, a gold medal, a gold football, a pin of Yale's famed Skull & Bones Society. Each was engraved: E. H. COY-YALE U. "Could it be Ted Coy, the Yale athlete?" ventured the pawnbroker. "Yes," said the girl, "I am his wife...
...slashing of duties on French wines & liquors had reduced the price of champagnes and cognacs by 80? in the U. S.; and just as new French Premier Léon Blum was talking last week, according to the Associated Press, of appointing an envoy to try and borrow a cool "one billion dollars," abruptly the blood of U. S. citizens was made to boil against the Blum Cabinet and French employes of the American Hospital in Neuilly...