Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First a day's session was held at Victoria, then a two-day session at Vancouver. The Government of British Columbia asked politely that the banks should be more liberal in their loans, asked that the province and cities should be allowed to borrow directly from the Dominion instead of through the banks. Some businessmen complained that loans were hard to get, because they must be approved by bank officers in the East. Bankers denied this and representatives of several chief industries declared themselves satisfied with bank accommodations offered. Decorum was preserved until an Irish-Canadian barrister, Gerald Grattan...
General Johnson picked "Robbie" from last year's Democratic campaign headquarters. She is a self-made girl, aggressive, shrewd, able. She wears smart clothes, smokes in the corridors, bawls out office boys in a shrill voice. She conceals her past for fear alleged relatives will try to borrow from her. She winks at her friends, ignores strangers about the office. As a matter of business newsmen play up to her, get their neckties straightened and handkerchiefs adjusted in return. Says Secretary Robinson: "It's wonderful to meet all the great men of the country. I'm getting...
...personally guaranteed bond issues for Manhattan's Fifty-Seventh Street Building Co. and Eighth Avenue Building Corp. Said he: "I feel that I have been more than fair with all my creditors, for in order to pay the charges on the properties above mentioned. I have had to borrow and otherwise sacrifice. I am very willing, and intend to turn over all my assets to liquidate the remaining amounts which I may owe so that I may. unencumbered and unmolested, devote myself from now on to the interest of making better motion pictures." ¶ William Wrigley Jr. Co. declared...
...many glasses of punch away from her husband that she gets tipsy herself. Alec persuades his employer to give Terry a job. Terry gets drunk, makes embarrassing remarks about Alec's fondness for the employer's daughter. Finally one day when Annie is ashore trying to borrow money for new boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around to pick up a floating case of whiskey. The Narcissus has to be sold to pay the damages. Annie-by this time estranged from her son because she will...
...should conserve the loan funds for upper classmen because a Freshman has not yet had an opportunity to show whether or not he is deserving, and also because loan funds are revolving funds, the installments of which must usually be repaid within three years. If the student begins to borrow his first year, he must commence re-paying his debts before he has graduated...