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...total loans were not large. But there was an indirect benefit evident in increased loans by other banks: they have had to shed some of their timidity rather than lose business to the IDE...
Died. Mrs. Anne Ide Cockran, 68, longtime sharer of Robert Louis Stevenson's birthday; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1891, ailing, child-loving Author Stevenson learned from the U.S. Land Commissioner on Samoa, Henry Clay Ide, that because his daughter Anne was born on Christmas, she never got any birthday presents. Stevenson formally deeded his birthday (Nov. 13) to the child, stipulated that she celebrate the occasion "by the sporting of fine raiment, eating of rich meats and receipt of gifts, compliments and copies of verse . . .", or forfeit,the anniversary rights to the President...
...Hugnenor... A hitch in time saves nine: Glassow... There's NO place like home: Lawango... The early bird is a damnphool: Hartley... A rose is a rose is a rose: Fitzsimmons... Now heah this: Robertson ... In the spring I have a fancy: Harris ... But, sir, -I don't smoke: Ide...
...storks passed south over Berlin. Last week the violet skies of Avignon were grey and winter rains shuddered over the cobblestones of Paris. Ice edged out from the banks of canals in Holland, and in the Dolomites snow crunched underfoot. Ukranian peasants used to say: "nash didus ide," meaning that winter, a bundled-up old grandfather, had come to visit. They did not say that this year. All Europe feared the fourth winter of World War II. It would be known as the year of organized hunger...
...orator, he prefers to read his speeches, which are, like himself, dry and sharp. He is married to a German-Chilean, Marta Ide Perera of the artistic Ide family, has a quiet, formal home life. He disapproved his three sons' music lessons lest culture should sissify them. For himself, he has preferred the wild horsemanship of el huaso, the Chilean cowboy...