Word: crediteer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where shall the capital credit come from? That is engaging the attention of the government, Leans of this kind can be made through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the credit mechanisms about to be set up under plans for local mortgage companies...
...Roosevelt is in the direction of capital or durable goods. He has been holding conferences with executives of various steel companies with the idea of getting steel rails for the railroads. But this is only one of a number of things the railroads could buy if they had the credit. They have neglected maintenance of way and the purchase of new equipment to replace that which has depreciated and is now costing inordinate sums for repairs...
...their sphere of acquaintanceship among the faculty and student body: Candidates, however, will not be confined to the University in their work; frequent opportunity will arise for those so desiring to interview prominent figures in every walk of life from politics to the chorus. The alert man will receive credit for his scoops and special articles; he will penetrate the mystery hovering about twelve point Roman caps, and he will acquire the esoteric art of reading slugs, still red and glowing from the linotype. In fact, the more ambitious have been known to receive instruction in the linotype machine itself...
Meantime steps to test the legality of New York City's taxes were being prepared on all sides. The city's credit standing did not improve and its bonds, some of which have sold down to 70, failed to rally. Many thought that the new taxes would yield not big revenue but big law suits. The bankers of the city, who already hold $200,000,000 of the city's short-term obligations and have been asked to lend $72,000,000 more in the immediate future, wrote a letter to Mayor O'Brien. Five...
...Lytton Strachey et al. laid the 19th Century's haunting ghost with many a mocking exorcism; succeeding scholars are now finding a sympathetic task in recreating its soul. A sign of the times, this latest study of Poet-Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his earnest men is a credit not only to its authoress' heart but to her scholarship and her mind. Poor Splendid Wings got the pre-eminence over 800 other mss., won for Authoress Winwar the Atlantic Monthly-Little, Brown $5,000 non-fiction prize...