Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile sources close to Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank rumored that on Nov. 7 forehanded Count Charles de Broqueville prepared for the crisis of last week by arranging with the U. S. Federal Reserve System to supply up to $25,000,000 of quick credit to resist pressure against the belga. From Washington the Treasury would neither affirm nor deny that a "foreign loan" had been made to Belgium, indicated that if it were so the Bank of Belgium would eventually have to ship gold to cover as much of the quick credit as was used...
...Credit for the success of the band is due in a large degree to two men, to Franklin Anderson, director, orchestrator, and baton-waver extraordinary, and to director Guy Slade in whose nightmares must course new schemes for dotting an i amid endless streams of running bandsmen. To these men, and to the members of the band for the interest they have shown, and for the work they have expended, Harvard extends her thanks...
Last February the annual report of the Foundation asserted that one-third of college Seniors are intellectually on a par with high school students. After advocating improvement in admissions systems, the report went on to say that "if teachers were relieved of their factitious authority for giving credit it would shortly appear which of their number were of recognized value in ministering to the intellectual life of the student and which were being merely carried on by the system...
...tain, testy old War Minister and close to the "Cross of Fire," had made a scene at the next to last meeting of the Cabinet. When the six Radical Socialist Ministers, headed by M. Edouard Herriot, announced that they would resign, rather than support a three-month emergency credit to give Premier Doumergue time to put through his proposed reform of the Constitution (TIME, Nov. 12), lean, grizzled Marshal Pétain marched up to paunchy, pipe-sucking M. Herriot and hissed "Monsieur, you have committed a crime against France...
...business career was carefully itemized last week in a long White House release. He had been: 1) one of the founders and longtime head of a $50,000,000 group of Utah and Idaho banks "which came through the banking crisis in such splendid condition as to reflect great credit upon his ability as a bank executive"; 2) president of a big construction company which got fat contracts at Boulder Dam and owns a 300,000-acre ranch with "40,000 sheep and 25,000 cattle"; 3) director of Pet Milk Co.; 4) president of Sego Milk Products...