Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing, he has given a great deal of his time and over $1,000,000 of his money to the founding of credit unions (cooperative savings and loan groups) in America. There are over 6,000 of them today, furnishing credit at the minimum rates to 1,250,000 workers who formerly were dependent on high-rate money lenders, frequently illegal loan sharks, when they needed a loan. I share the benefits of one myself; had it not been for Filene I should not have had it. This is not his only concrete contribution to liberalism; it is simply...
...apparently was on his way to his sixth consecutive win over the Mitchellmen in three years. His teammates spotty fielding in the eighth combined with a base on balls, and two hits sent him to the dugout after three runs had tied the game, and his successor, Jarlett, received credit for the victory...
...field of Psychology is medium-sized, having 63 concentrators, and is considered about the easiest in the College. The department is characterized by brilliant researchers, and poor tutoring. Since the subject is an inexact science, credit is given on examinations for original thought, making it still simpler to get by with a minimum of formal work. But pseudo-psychologists are warned that unless they have a real interested in the research possibilities of this growing subject, they will have a lonely and neglected academic three years...
...terms of the measure make it clear that the tax and credit device was intended to enable Federal officers virtually to control the exertion of powers of the States in a field in which they alone have jurisdiction and from which the United States is by the Constitution excluded." A third dissent was rendered by Justice McReynolds on the ground that the law, by its tax feature, virtually coerced the States into passing unemployment insurance laws...
White-maned Walter Damrosch rehearsed and conducted his opera with great vigor, took curtain calls along with Poet Guiterman. In a cast that sang as freshly as any this season, particular credit went to Helen Traubel of St. Louis for a powerful-voiced Mary. Arthur Carron sang Philip expressively, looked so little the romantic part that forthright Critic Danton Walker of the Daily News felt his sentence of banishment should have been a bread-&-water diet...