Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the R. F. C. made its first direct relief loan?$3,000,000 to Illinois. At the same time it warned States it would lend only as "a last resort" after every other source of credit had been exhausted. Presumably the Illinois loan was for use in creditless Chicago...
Governor Nielsen's "most thoughtful act," wirelessed Mrs. Stafford to the New York Times last week, "was to lend us as interpreter and guide, old Inughito, who had been mess boy on the Roosevelt with Admiral Peary during her last winter at Cape Sheridan. The meeting between Captain Bob and this faithful native of the old days was a most touching one, as the two men flung their arms about each other in a welcome that came from their hearts...
...Garner at this moment enjoys the reputation of being a great radical. Why? Because he proposed to build a billion dollars' worth of postoffices and what not. Then because he proposed to lend money to as many persons as possible. ... It would be a hideous waste of money to build Mr. Garner's postoffices. But radical it would not be. The pork barrel is one of our most ancient institutions. . . . Mr. Garner's money lending plan was a cruel deception; it was like offering everyone a drink out of a half-pint flask. His projects reflect upon his judgment...
...Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corp. to lend $2,000,000.000 to banks, railways, trust & insurance companies. R. F. C. checked the onrush of bank failures and rail receiverships. Up to last week it had lent $1,054,000,000 to 4,106 institutions...
...Clyburn twins' museum, whose chief exhibit was an emu's egg mistaken for a thunderbolt; Mr. Mellor, the eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into...