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...loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral offered had been stripped from the sound banks in the Guardian group while the loan was to buttress the weak unit...
...true that Henry Ford's $7,500,000 deposit was the largest. In addition Mr. Ford had loaned Union Guardian (of which Edsel Ford and his brother-in-law Ernest C. Kanzler are directors) another $11,000,000 in an earlier attempt to buttress the crumbling institution. The R. F. C. had put up $15.000.000. When Union Guardian approached the R. F. C. for more, Senator James Couzens, Henry Ford's oldtime partner and a bitter critic of the R. F. C., insisted that adequate security must be furnished. This the bank could not do for a loan...
...which are found fundamentally divergent viewpoints in regard to every basic conception, something exists on a world scale to which can be given the name of culture? If such a culture exists or is emerging, a culture of which, as the report suggests, Christianity should be made the spiritual buttress, what is the basic idea which inspires...
Associated by birth and education with the best American traditions, Justice Holmes had a dignity which could forget itself, but which others could not forget. During a period of stress which has not always been kind to hallowed institutions, that dignity has been an invaluable buttress to the Supreme Court. Naturally, to such a character, the necessity for "bowing to the inevitable" can be recognized only with the deepest reluctance, a reluctance bound to be shared by his fellow citizens. But consolation is found in the conviction that Justice Holmes, whatever physical infirmities age may bring, still remains in heart...
...Guarantee Fund, a sort of fiscal flying buttress in the Young Plan, was cut out of the negotiations last week by Mr. Hoover, whose State Department announced: "We understand that the French Government now indicates that it can drop this from the discussion." Only a few hours earlier the obligation of France with respect to the Guarantee Fund* had brought the parleys near to a dead...