Word: credite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contracted with Contract Purchasing Corp. of Detroit to buy a 1936-model Dodge for $500 in installments. When he lost his job last December he went home to Cattaraugus Reservation, taking with him his car, on which he still owed $296. Receiving no more payments from him, the credit company sought to repossess...
...good feeling that the first hundred children will carry home on Saturday will be so inevitable, so natural, that one might suspect the University's publicity department of originating the scheme. Credit for the plan's conception and execution goes to Brooks House and William J. Bingham '16, himself once an active P. B. H. worker...
...scholarship that Harvard too often teaches. Mr. Bessie's research is flawless, but his naivete is stupendous. In the entire work the words "morbidity," "propaganda," "sadism," "malice" and "fabrication" do not once appear. Mr. Bessie seems unaware of persecutions and deliberate hoaxes for editorial or sensational reasons. He gives credit to the ingenuity of none but the most scurvy editors, and the important question of whether the public demanded the tabloid or whether unprincipled publishers forced it down the public's throat, Mr. Bessie leaves unsolved...
...from 198,000,000 marks in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, to 574,000,000 marks in 1937. Simultaneously Britain and the U. S. began buying less & less from the Balkans, which during the past five years have reluctantly sold more & more to the Nazis-mostly on credit...
Commodore Robert Beaufin Irving, the ship's greying, trained-in-sail skipper, gave credit where credit seemed due-to the balmy weather and to St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers. No Roman Catholic, but a stanch Covenanter, Commodore Irving totes two St. Christophers, one a statue given him by a Galway pilot, the other a medal from a passenger. Swore he: "I spun that medal around and said, 'Well, St. Chris, what about it?' He said, 'Go to it.' " Next day sheepish operators and tug hands came to a hasty agreement. Said chagrined Tsar Ryan...