Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Remedial Loan Societies. Semi-eleemosynary, these societies sprang up in great numbers around 1915, backed by philanthropists who wished to combat usury. They have a $60,000,000-per-year volume. Leader is Provident Loan Society of New York, doing 66% of the business. Last week Provident reported it had made 530,000 loans involving $41,000,000 last year...
...tells about a boy who lives in just such a frame house as millions of U. S. boys live in and who diverts himself like these other millions but who has a hard time because his pranks get on the nerves of his pompous father (Lewis Stone). The combat between father and son reaches a climax when the mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with her son. Then the family is reunited by the arbitration of a friendly doctor. There are sentimental stretches in Father's Son, but it is effective most of the time, paced exactly...
...charred by the great fire, the city's best and brightest people are meeting hourly to protest the rule of the "nine" in whose hands Billy left the city's virtue and the keys to heaven. The Boston Puritans, a strictly non-commercial ball team, has been organized to combat the menace. But they refuse to play the evangelical boys until they are permanently assured of the repeal of Sunday Baseball...
...Moscow, when the 50th birthday of Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov rolled around last week a public subscription was opened. With the proceeds three thumping birthday presents will be bought, presented to Comrade Voroshilov: a dirigible, "several combat planes,"? a submarine...
Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Yale have all declined the $25,000 bequeathed to each of them by the late Albert Enoch Pillsbury, onetime Massachusetts Attorney General, to combat Feminism (TIME. Jan. 19). Harvard, which permits female students in a few of its courses and whose President & Fellows constitute the supervising Board of Visitors of nearby Radcliffe College, refused as a matter of policy. Princeton, which has never allowed women in any of its courses; Yale, which has many a post-graduate female student and a School of Nursing, refused with equal firmness. Columbia, which has more women than men, found...