Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Agreed to a conference report on a bill authorizing the R. F. C. to lend up to $5,000,000 for California earthquake relief (see p. n), sent it to the President...
...suggestion that lectures be given in the course, it must be opined that, with the exception of a few topics, the principles of economics do not lend themselves to mass instruction. Section discussions, on the testimony of several sophomore, Juniors, and Seniors, have been satisfactory in the past. The suggestion that individual conferences be included in the conduct is a good one, but one which provides great problems of expense and teaching personnel...
Both series lend themselves to criticism, but I shall mention only the article which brought this most forcibly to my attention: that published last Friday on the field of Economics. I speak of the article because I have some special competence upon the subject of that field of concentration. And yet I must claim to be free from bias on the subject of Economics a, since I do not instruct...
...care should be taken to select courses in some other fields which will permit the fullest use of the knowledge gained in the study of pure economic theory. Courses under the statesmen men of other departments like Baxter. Elliott, and Hopper, and some spot in the Sociological schedule will lend to the courses in economics the greater romance and fascination by supplying the world significance and working examples of the technique already learned. The second important fact is that this technique and theory is essential. Little argument is needed to indicate the importance of an understanding of economic forces...
...malice on the head of Professor Felix Frankfurter, urging with factious vehemence that he be excluded from any Federal appointment. The crusade will take the form of letters to President Roosevelt, carefully warning him of Professor Frankfurter's liberalism, of the dangerous movements to which he has ventured to lend the weight of his influence in the past, of his general radicalism and undesirability...