Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...History was his favorite subject but he drew down A's in philosophy, political science, sociology and economics. No aloof paragon, he liked to watch hockey games, play casino, go to the movies, bring girls up to proms and the Winter Carnival. He never missed a chance to lend a fellow athlete a hand with his studies...
McLeod Bill (as amended) would order RFC to pay off in cash all deposits in closed banks up to $2,500 and to lend depositors up to 85% on any remaining unpaid balances. Jesse Jones, speaking to the House Banking & Currency Committee against the bill, said it would involve the Government in huge losses-up to $2,500,000,000 if balances in all closed banks were paid in full, a large portion of that amount under the $2,500 limitation. How the sum would be obtained the bill did not specify (probably by borrowing) but the fact that...
...course everything we had has been swept away. To get to Europe and back here I had to sell my last pearl studs. . . . I have wealthy friends here. I used to play polo with Tommy Hitchcock. . . . But I do not want money from them. If they should offer to lend me money I would fling it in their faces...
...heels of Jesse Jones's bill came another bill which the Administration has been working on for weeks: to lend money directly to business without making the U. S. Government a full-fledged banker. It would set up twelve intermediate credit banks one in each Federal Reserve District, operating under Federal Reserve charters and authorized to discount or purchase long-term obligations issued by businesses to procure working capital. Banks and other institutions which sell such securities to the Intermediate Credit Banks would have to bear at least 20% of the losses...
This is the signal for Nathan Rothschild's greatest coup. First he extracts from the Allies a promise to give Jews citizenship. Then he agrees to lend them all the Rothschild money. On the morning of Waterloo Rothschild is in a bad way. There is a panic on the London stock exchange. If the market breaks completely. Rothschild will be bankrupt. He pops on to the floor, places in his buttonhole a flower given him by Mrs. Rothschild (Mrs. Arliss) and orders his agents to buy. Presently, there arrives from the battlefield a message that Napoleon has lost. When...