Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan. Last week President Hoover, close to whose heart are the U. S. Home & Family, moved in a large way to supply the Yellow Springs banker with $6,000 to lend Senator Fess, to ease the strain on the three building & loan associations sufficiently for the G. 0. P. chairman to withdraw his savings, to put jobless men to work on a new Fess home, and on perhaps 200,000 other homes. The President's purpose was to thaw out the frozen mortgage market on small homes so that people could start new building and thereby contribute...
...assuming that the distribution of wealth should not be such that anyone must starve. But it is pure mob panic to turn uncritically to the most immediate source of funds. By refusing to cooperate the authorities, of the College have done a great service, and if other colleges lend their support to the provision of bread and circuses, we may be prouder of the stand our own has taken. George S. Pellee...
With this lack of humor and understanding, Eton and Harrow are endeavoring to lend a democratic flavor to what have always been gentlemen's schools. But far more to the point than these superficial concessions to practicality is Highgate's provision of new workshops, where boys can build usable machinery with their own hands and lie on their backs in overalls beneath Austins in the making. This is the sort of healthy handicraft that really balances intellectuality, as the Hill School hobby-shop in America has effectively shown. Equally commendable is the honest purpose of Kimmel Hall, a new school...
...which had been moved to a handsome Doric building on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue, dwindled. The Federation became more & more respectable. Its leaders had tasted national and international power, had associated as equals with the bigwigs of finance and politics. They decided to form banks which could lend money to fair employers, withholding it from concerns which favored the open shop. If Capital had to be fought, it would be fought with Capitalistic weapons. First labor organization to founder in this foreign field was the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers which sank $20,000,000 of its hundred-million resources...
Thawing Out. With this money in its till, National Credit Corp. will lend money to banks on securities which are not acceptable for loans at the Federal Reserve. Instead of having to sell these securities in the demoralized bond and stock market, banks can turn to National Credit Corp. and get a fair loan on them, thus unthawing frozen assets...