Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this seemingly generous offer, the opposition pastors returned a flat and unanimous "No." Behind the appearance of the State's abject surrender, they spotted the finesse that Minister Kerrl, although promising to appoint opposition clerics, reserved the right to dismiss them as soon as opposition congregations had drained off into his German Christian Church...
Calling on other museums, public-spirited dealers and generous owners, the Brooklyn Museum was able to assemble 16 El Grecos, including the Worcester Art Museum's Magdalen, and the Metropolitan's View of Toledo. Three Velazquez' were borrowed: a self-portrait belonging to Jules S. Bache, a St. Peter from the Nelson Gallery of Kansas City and Don Balthazar Carlos and his Dwarf from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts...
...registered pharmacist, a onetime professional baseballer, an organizer of a Denver insurance company. They did know that Promoter Pfab's current venture was the high-sounding National Educators' Mutual Association, which sold ''endowment bonds" to teachers. The Pfab scheme was simple and forthright, if not generous. In return for $750 in cash, a teacher would receive a bond redeemable in ten years for $1,000 in cash plus five shares of stock in the Association. To lend prestige to his organization. Mr. Pfab also issued 50 shares of stock to each of 28 Tennessee superintendents...
...have fallen off badly as a result of the pegged price. This long-range advantage did not appeal to Southern Senators. They bellyached mightily to the effect that a 9? loan sounded cheap and shoddy to their constituents who had learned to expect bigger and finer things from the generous New Deal. Unexpressed, but probably more potent, was the fact that Cotton Senators knew that cotton mills and speculators in the South who had bought cotton at 11? would suffer a loss if AAA moved its price peg down 3?. Two days later, anxious to send Congress packing. President Roosevelt...
...said that when something displeases him, he stalks the floor scattering live cigaret butts. No one is allowed to pick them up, for later Mr. Timken likes to look across a carpet pock-marked with burned spots, evidence of successful rages. In gentler moods Chairman Timken is generous with his money. He pays high wages, has provided food and coal for old employes now idle. To Canton he once donated a $250,000 swimming pool. Eight years ago he gave Cleveland's Dr. Orval James Cunningham $1,000,000 to build a tank hospital where patients live under compressed...