Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outsider could claim credit for causing Catholic Postmaster General Farley suddenly to take notice of what had been mushrooming under his nose since last summer, it was Protestant Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning of Manhattan. One Sunday last month prim little Bishop Manning left his cathedral on Morningside Heights, drove downtown to deliver a sermon from the pulpit of socialite St. Bartholomew's on Park Avenue. Topic of his preachment was lotteries and he was against them...
...general the Socialists and other Leftist parties believe in friendship with Germany, strict adherence to the League of Nations, reduced taxes and extended credit (i. e. modified inflation). Rightist parties clamor for French security maintained by force of arms, the League as a tool of French foreign policy, less government interference in business, and the gold standard forever...
This scene, funny though it is, is not quite enough to make The Moon's Our Home diverting for the hour and 20 minutes it runs. Following the fashion, critics will doubtless credit Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell with the many knowing lines and pleasant minor touches, hold the lesser scribblers who worked on the picture responsible for such hackneyed characterizations as Henrietta Crosman as a termagant grandmother whose heart is secretly abrim with kindness and Charles Butterworth in his infinitely tiresome reproduction of an infinitely tired young...
...most girls, small-town or otherwise, young Dr. Dakin's boorish reaction to the news might well remove all glamour from the escapade and make a return to Carvel seem an irresistible alternative. Not so for Kay Brannan. With a stubborn sweetness that does credit to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's casting intuition, Kay Brannan goes about reforming her oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot...
...land. But Mr. Dunn is not a banker except by training. He risks no capital, gets no commissions, is paid a straight salary apportioned, along with his expenses and wages of his three employes, among the Land Banks he represents. He is also fiscal agent for the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks, which make short-term crop and marketing loans to farmers, has disposed of $1,800,000,000 of Intermediate Credit Bank debentures in the past seven years...