Word: guarantors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irving Berlin; after long illness; in Manhattan. From his Irish immigrant father, who made a fortune gold-mining, dapper, debonair, lavishly educated Clarence Mackay inherited Postal Telegraph, worked it up to a $500,000,000 world-wide system. As a Manhattan socialite he played godfather and chief guarantor to many an artistic institution, including the New York Phil-harmonic-Symphony, until Depression began to gnaw away the income from his tremendous fortune...
...Peace is the Christian way, without endorsing extreme pacifism or praising the man who takes up arms for his country. To Europeans confused by relations between Church & State, the World Conference said firmly: "We do not consider the State as the ultimate source of law, but rather as its guarantor. It is not the lord, but the servant, of justice." The conference sent a message of sympathy to the German Evangelical Church, whose delegates had been denied passports to attend. This caused the only dissension of the fortnight at Oxford. A German Methodist and a Baptist, representing a mere...
Because the Federal Housing Administration is a partial guarantor of modernization loans made by banks under Title I of the National Housing Act, Mike Pecoraro's methods came under Federal scrutiny. His methods were simple. A short, smartly-dressed man with a police record as a forger and thief, Mike would walk into a branch of big National City or Manufacturers Trust, submit an FHA loan application signed by Otto Corneau (or one of 18 other names) with his right hand and the wife's name penned with his left. Then he returned to a rented apartment, waited...
...remaining problems with the exception of the Adviser System, are largely of detail, and will take care of themselves with a minimum of sympathetic assistance. English A should be revised; the profits of Freshman undertakings should be allowed to accumulate until the Class can act as its own guarantor under the supervision of the head proctor; the preceding class presidents should become the ex officio advisers of the Union Committee so that a continuity can be established; above all, the Advisers should be given enough time to act as the Great White Father to their charges. And with...
...could eat no solid food and because of unhealed internal injuries even liquid food caused searing pain. Her legs swelled and hurt if she stood on them for a few minutes. She had been awarded damages of $6,000, of which she had collected nothing because of an insurance guarantor's bankruptcy. At the reporter's instigation she dictated a letter to the Erie County Medical Association. Excerpts...