Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granted that lean, polite Brother Mortimer would be chairman, loud Brother Herbert president. For Brother Herbert has shown ability not only in the mechanics of banking and investment but also in the delicate matter of contact with customers. He has often so genially laughed off his "inability" to lend money that the would-be borrower has gone off chuckling, convinced. Willing to see anybody, with a laugh and a backslap for almost all, he has never wavered when approached by such stern banking problems as foreclosing on a friend...
...endorsed Prohibition. She demanded more rigid enforcement. She suggested that U. S. Ambassadors be ordered to stop drinking abroad. She warned that her followers would cut any man who ran as a Dry on a Wet platform because "we could not trust the sincerity of any candidate willing to lend himself to such a plan." President Hoover smiled, said nothing. "Mr. Hoover is our man," exclaimed Mrs. Peabody going out through the lobby. "We trust the President but we don't trust some of the members of his party."* Asked what W. N. C. F. L. E. would...
...time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together in Chicago. She holds him with her comfortable, wise charms, and with the money she can lend. At the sight of the world of wealth, Pierre's banker's blood begins to simmer. With Muller, a circus mechanic, he opens a bicycle shop. Soon Muller and he are fooling with automobiles. Their first model is bought by Financier Homer Flint, from Pentland where Joanna lives. Pierre...
...evening, rumors were widespread that the failure of the bell clapper to return to Memorial Hall was beginning to be a trifle irksome to the Harvard investigator. The suggestion has been made that Lowell House, with its 18 clippers for which no beneficial use has yet been found, might lend one for use in the Memorial Hall tower until Major Apted's wishes come true, and the practical jokers give back the stolen property. For the present, however, Memorial Hall will remain as silent as it has for the past nine days...
...biggest packer of California dried fruits, biggest distributor of salmon, second biggest distributor of California canned fruits and vegetables. He decided that one big firm combining all functions of the industry, amalgamating big competitors, should be formed. To do so he had to convince some one that he should lend 16 million dollars...