Word: borrows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the meticulous Times made this correction: "John V. W. Reynders did not borrow a nickel from Andrew W. Mellon yesterday. . . . Mr. Reynders did indeed ask Mr. Mellon for a loan of 5¢ but his employer ... did not have the money...
...this time as a "rider" attached to one of the administration's pet appropriation measures. These new bills, it is rumored, would give the Precident greater freedom in choosing means of raising the two billion dollars. He would be allowed to draw from the four billion relief fund, or borrow the necessary cash from the banks--thus, in one sense avoiding ugly immediate inflationary dangers...
Although it is the oldest State university, Georgia is not rich and new buildings are perpetually needed. One of Dr. Caldwell's prime trials will be Governor Eugene Talmadge who feuds with the Roosevelt Administration and refuses to let the University borrow $2,800,000 from PWA for new buildings. Last week genial Dr. Sanford and earnest Dr. Caldwell thought that perhaps together they could bring the Governor around...
Jack Neylan drew up California's first budget, walked onto the floor of the Legislature, bulldozed that body into accepting it. When, after six years, California's $2,000,000 deficit had been turned into an $8,000,000 surplus, Budgeteer Neylan had to borrow $1,000 to move his family back to San Francisco where he began practicing law. His first partner was Aaron Sapiro, who silenced Henry Ford's attacks on Jews. After a year he opened his own office, got as his first client Zellerbach Paper Co. which he had lashed unmercifully as Chairman...
...kitty might not trouble him, many a citizen was ready to trouble the President for a small donation. First help of this kind was offered by a delegation of mayors, headed by New York's LaGuardia, who marched in to say that they did not want to borrow any of the President's relief money but did want a large share of it as an outright gift because most of the unemployed live in cities...