Word: borrowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before the shooting, Bolton had offered him and an associate $13,000 "to bump off Walter Reuther." They refused. A couple of days before Reuther was shot, Bolton came to Miller's home, asked for two shotguns. Bolton left with the guns, saying: "I've got to borrow the typewriters. I've got to get rid of a red-haired Communist son of a bitch...
Charles James Fox. Short and fat, harsh-voiced defender of the colonists, haggard from dissipation, he lost so much money at faro that he had to borrow from the waiters at Brooks's to pay for his meals. When he walked the streets, moneylenders, tailors and haberdashers swarmed around him dunning him for their pay. After he lost his fortune he set himself up as a gambler in his own right, became wealthy, bought race horses and got a new mistress. The Prince of Wales campaigned for his re-election to Parliament, and traded mistresses with...
...bills of lading) was worthless. Instead of making this information public, the bank covered up for Benjamin. When other banks asked about his credit standing, Title Guarantee answered that Benjamin "knows the business very well," and that his "account has been very satisfactory." Result: Benjamin was able to borrow $320,000 more at other lenders' windows. He used part of it to pay off Title Guarantee, said he lost most of the rest on the horses...
...killings are made. Usually only professionals sell short, chiefly because the ordinary investor is vaguely suspicious of the process. Shorts (bears) sell stock which they do not own, hoping that the market will go down and that they can buy the stock later at a lower price. Meanwhile they borrow stock from brokers, sometimes paying a small fee, to turn over to the buyer. Eventually, of course, the short trader has to replace the borrowed stock by actually buying equivalent shares...
When his literary agent icily described his novel as "worthless," Carnegie's "heart almost stopped." But, plucking up his courage, he decided to 'borrow the ideas of a lot of other writers" and make them into "the best book on public speaking . . . ever . . . written." This book flopped, too, and Carnegie decided that instead of borrowing from, or acting like others, "you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life." Out of the depths of his heart and personal experience, he drew How to Win Friends and Influence People. Today, wiry, white-maned Dale Carnegie...