Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative board consists of five Seniors and two directors from the second-year class. Members of the bureau, established as a corporation, lend three hours of their time each week to destitute clients who are asked to pay only a voluntary 25 cent registration...
Plan No. 4 added to this last week both financial and political concessions. President Benes offered to lend a billion Czechoslovak koruny ($35,000,000) "on the most favorable terms" to stimulate industry in Czechoslovak districts now suffering from unemployment, with 700,000,000 koruny earmarked for Sudeten districts. Britain and France stood ready to lend this money to Czechoslovakia, it was understood in Prague, and Dr. Benes clearly hoped many observers of the Sudeten Germans had been right in reporting recently that what they want is a return to prosperity, not Germany...
...Post was the first to be signed in Manhattan. By persuading the A.F. of L. unions to let their men treat the matter as individuals rather than as unionists, Publisher Stern got a "10% "kickback" out of 97% of the Post's mechanical employes.* They agreed to lend the Post 10% of their pay checks indefinitely, the loans to be repaid at 2% interest when, to the satisfaction of an employe committee, the paper makes money...
...telephone John L. Lewis, to whose C.I.O. the Guild belongs. In subsequent telephone conversations with Guild officials in Manhattan, Mr. Lewis muttered something about "the White House." He advised the Guild to accept the proposition "the way Stern wants it." The Guild did so. Said Publisher Stern: "You would lend money to your grandmother. Why not to your boss...
...Commodity Credit Corp. said it would lend California prune growers 1½? a lb. on their surpluses-$8,745,000 all together...