Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul's lissome wife Irene (Sigrid Gurie...
...statement printed on the editorial page today, the executive committee of the Harvard Young-Communist League, denies rumors of a split in its ranks, stating that "the resignation of Granville Hicks is already being seized upon as an incident to lend plausibility to this tissue of fictions...
...press (with few exceptions) has sought to convey the impression that the Communist movement has been shattered, its members mazed in confusion and disillusionment, its ranks thinned by mass defection. The resignation of Granville Hicks, reported in the Press, is already being seized upon as an incident to lend plausibility to this tissue of fiction...
Will you please suggest how I can induce the Congressional big shots to lend their attention for a few moments to the Blount plan...
...boom, as for better stock prices, was the calculation of the funds which foreign Governments have for purchases in the U. S. Belligerents who have defaulted on U. S. loans cannot borrow in the U. S. in ordinary ways, but the Export-Import Bank has funds that it can lend to exporters of U. S. products. Last week RFC announced it would be glad to help...