Word: lend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solved. No province in distress ever had a stranger saviour. Miss Jeannette Lewis, a stocky lady with a large capable jaw and large capable feet, drove up to Montreal's swanky Ritz-Carlton hotel, registered, and let it be known that "myself and my associate" were ready to lend Newfoundland not only the $8,000,000 it asked for, but $109,000,000. Of this amount $10,000,000 was immediately available in cash...
...London and New York bankers did not lend that money for the humanitarian purpose of saving Germany," said he. "They lent as ordinary business and banking transactions, to make a profit. They borrowed a good deal of it from France at a low rate of interest and lent at a high rate. There is no reason now why France should assume a part of these burdens...
...ladies all in black, including Mrs. Philip A. Brennan, president of the International Federation of Catholic Alumnae; Mrs. James J. Sheeran, its co-founder and president of the Seton Committee; and gentlemen in tailcoats and black ties, including Biographer Father Code. A dozen similar audiences were to follow. To lend ecclesiastical prestige came Mother-General Marie LeBrun of the Sisters of Charity of Paris, Cardinals Donatus Sbarretti and Bonaventure Cerretti, Bishop John Joseph McMahon of Trenton, N. J. and Rev. Giuseppe Scognamillo of Rome, postulator (advocate) of Mother Seton. In the Papal throne-room they genuflected, presented to His Holiness...
...livestock loan company sought by First Bank Stock Corp., is Agricultural Credit Corp., formed in 1924 by Minneapolis men, backed by railroads, newspapers, business firms. At first the company loaned its money only to banks, but in July of that year it started to lend directly on livestock. During the past seven years 14,000 Northwestern farmers have borrowed $7,000,000 from it. Its chairman is Clive Talbot Jaffray, who is also head of First Bank Stock Corp. In addition to banking, Mr. Jaffray is president of Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie ("Soo") Ry., subsidiary...
...party's two-day stay in Manhattan. Excerpts: "It may seem like taking a ham sandwich to a banquet, but you'll notice that all of us who have wives are taking them along, too. The party is sure to be dignified and the ladies may lend some grace to an otherwise motley assemblage. All classes, kinds and politics are represented here, but we're going to try to sink our political differences over there...