Word: creditable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate wives were miffed because only about half of their husbands were invited to the garden party at the British Embassy. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay lunched with Vice President Garner and several Senators at the Capitol and afterward all Senators & wives were invited to the party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention...
...consistent mood of grim decadence is no easy job for a motion picture, yet director, producer, and cast have held that mood and made Wuthering Heights into a tremendously convincing tragedy. But of all those who had a hand in the picture Laurence Oliver deserves the largest share of credit. Here is a Robert Taylor with some guts, a Clark Gable who knows...
...formed another government only a few days before the Stavisky scandal flared into bloody riots. Serge Alexandre Stavisky, a Russian Jew who emigrated as a boy to France, had long been mixed up with shady financial deals. In 1932 he had gained control of the semi-official pawnshop ("Credit Municipal") of Bayonne. By arranging to have the shop's jewels overvalued, by getting a letter of endorsement from the Minister of Labor, by persuading even the Mayor and Deputy of Bayonne to "cooperate," Stavisky was able to sell quantities of Credit Municipal bonds many times greater than the assets...
...rate of interest . . . necessary to get the business done." 2) To insure loans to small business, FHA style, "to put the small man who cannot finance internally on a par with large corporations." 3) To appoint a special subcommittee, reporting to Congress, on the feasibility of organizing capital credit banks to make capital available alike to government (Federal & local) and to private enterprise. "No panacea," Berle pontificated, "with these three bills we should have the elements for a modern financial toolkit...
...dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead of bills. Rich patients pay huge sums, computed from their rating in national credit agencies...