Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under the Jones-White Act Mr. Herbermann set out to borrow $7,122,750 from the Shipping Board to build his four "Ex" passenger liners. He got the cash at less than 1% interest. When his Government loans began to gall, he went to Washington to get them extended, spent $11,360 in 30 days on "entertainment." The Shipping Board's comptroller recommended disapproval of the extension because Export Steamship owed $3,952,000, had assets of only $1,172,199. Robert Patterson Lamont, then Secretary of Commerce, wrote the Shipping Board that he saw no objection...
...been interested in horse racing at Agua Caliente, furnished Zanuck with cash to produce his pictures at United Artists' studio (like Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickford, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr.). Suspected of intending a campaign of "star-raiding,'' Producer Zanuck has so far managed to borrow or buy in the open market all the talent he has needed. On Twentieth Century's current payroll are: Constance Bennett, Loretta Young, George Arliss, Constance Cummings, George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Sally Blane. Tullio Carminati. Forthcoming Twentieth Century pictures: Broadway Through a Keyhole, Moulin Rouge, Advice to the Lovelorn, House...
...last week before a Chicago conference of mayors. Blaming municipalities for construction delays, the Public Works Administrator declared: "All we can do is to ask you to 'Get on your mark! Get set! Go!' We can give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world but we're not dropping taxpayers' money into the hat of a blind...
...York City was having its own private financial row. Not so famed as Chicago for financial difficulties, New York, able by law to borrow up to 10% of assessed value of city property, has managed over the course of years to pile up a per capita debt of $206.74 (five times that of Chicago)-for borrowing was the easiest way for Tammany to provide plenty of pork for the city pork barrel without arousing citizens by putting high taxes higher or making the working man pay more than 5? for the world's longest subway ride. Last spring came...
...hypocrite by subscribing to such a resolution." For four years he loudly mocked Herbert Hoover's attempt to bring back prosperity. A regular attendant at the annual conferences of U. S. mayors, he was in Washington last May vainly trying to beg, borrow or steal some Federal cash to help Milwaukee's unemployed. Though he talks much about the efficiency and cheapness of his city services, non-Socialists have kept him from making Milwaukee a model Socialist municipality...