Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely, modifying capital gains levies almost out of sight; Bob Doughton's House Committee was equally adamant about saving the Administration's face by preserving the first at least in principle, keeping a fair share of the second. Effect of the Byrnes Committee report was to lend weight to arguments on the Senate side. Two days after its release, the two tax committees met for the seventh time, settled down to thresh the matter out behind closed doors. The doors remained closed for six hours except when they opened briefly to let out the dozen...
...moot, but last week Jesse Jones declared that RFC would be glad to give utilities money for expansion. Said he: "We have heard a lot of talk about the expanding they could do if they got the right kind of money. We have the money and we will lend it to them right. Not for refinancing but for anything that will put men to work." Back cracked the industry's spokesman, President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern: "Greatest immediate requirement of the utility industry is a large inflow of common capital indispensable for much-needed additional construction. Loans...
...Chairman Jesse Jones announced that RFC had agreed to lend $14,000,000 to the Southern Pacific subject to ICC approval to meet equipment trust maturities and $778,000 to the Lehigh Valley largely for freight car repairs, that Baltimore & Ohio officials were "confident" they could "get through" 1938 without defaulting on any obligations...
...conversation. His neck slowly flushing, the fallen financier took a deep breath and recounted: "The loan was made because I told him I had been using customers' securities improperly. He was aghast at the fact and terribly disturbed. He said he would see if he could arrange to lend me the money I needed and told me to find out what was necessary to clear up the situation. I did so and the next day the money was loaned...
...wrote operas and attacked critics who had been particularly bitter against his revolutionary music. Any unfavorable criticism was unfair and the man responsible was either intentionally malicious or else bribed. Few of his friends lasted long, their friendship often depending on whether they were willing and able to lend him money. An egoist through and through, he hated men who disagreed with him, and accepted those who flattered him. Nothing outside his own life, his own problems, interested him--the music of others was not worth listening...