Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their 100 qualifying shares. In boom days 100 shares of Bank of France stock was worth, at present parity, more than $150,000 and last week, after a 50% decline in the past year, more than $30,000. The regents or their banks are only too willing to lend a governor the sum he needs...
...preparing any college story it is amazing to discover how very readily all college types, both real and imaginative, lend themselves to caricature. The Joe College freshman; the cross Dean, a perfect heavy in every case, the co-ed-heroine, usually portrayed as a sweet, delectible Dream Princess; the hard-boiled football coach, always a character builder; the towering Adonis who plays full-back and causes feminine hearts to flutter; and as for the absent-minded professor pick up any college comic magazine and you'll find plenty of jokes about...
Mayor Kelly last week had two alternatives: 1) play ball with Democrat Horner; or 2) hold fast to the Tribune's apron-strings and lend silent support to the Tribune's Lawyer Brooks, who proved himself an able political personality by swamping Small and the five other Republican hopefuls...
...sentiments were echoed with approval by Franklin Roosevelt's uncle, Frederick A. Delano, who, as chairman of the President's Committee on National Resources, was there to lend the meeting his advice...
...emergency powers and some of his relief billions to set up a Rural Electrification Administration. Its job was to provide farmers with electric lights, electric refrigerators, electric pumps, electric feed grinders. Early this year Nebraska's Senator Norris, No. 1 Congressional lover of electricity, sponsored a bill to lend $100,000,000 a year for ten years to promote rural electrification on a permanent basis. With cries of "Extravagance!" ringing in their ears, New Dealers looked at Senator Norris' billion dollar bill, suggested that he crop it down to $40,000,000 a year, then gave it their...