Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With hordes of lobbyists pouring into Washington to grab PWA allotments for their localities from the new Lend-Spend millions, the President announced that such lobbyists would only weaken their localities' cases...
...Senate: ¶ Passed a $3,722,905,000 Lend-Spend bill, which was sent to conference...
Hospitalized in New York, Administrator Hopkins did not answer either Mr. Christgau or his charges. New Mexico's Democratic Senator Carl A. Hatch urged the Christgau ouster as another argument for an amendment to the Lend-Spend Bill (see p. 11) to bar WPA personnel from "interfering with an election or affecting the results thereof...
Among the spectators who saw him defeat Baby Arizmendi, onetime featherweight champion, at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field 22 months ago was Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Impressed, Singer Jolson agreed to lend his friend, Fight Manager Eddie Mead, $5,000 to buy Armstrong's contract. Under the management of Mead, Armstrong piled up 37 victories in a row, became the outstanding boxer...
...last month, the agency has lately run into difficulties.* Recently it announced a $51,000,000 loss on 12? cotton loans made in 1934, and with 1,670,000 bales left on its hands it has a further paper loss of $46,250,000. Now Commodity Credit apparently must lend more heavily than ever if it hopes to peg the 1938 price against a 13,000,000-bale crop...