Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco Chronicle's editor, Chester H. Rowell, thus gauged Pacific Coast sentiment: "We want to sell goods for money, and will even lend our customers the money to buy them at the risk that they may not pay the debt in cash. But to let them repay with their own goods, which might compete in our markets with our products, goes against our whole habit of thinking...
...Must Be Done. The President's budget message had laid down a fabulous task for Morgenthau. The U.S. planned to spend or lend $109,000,000,000 in the next fiscal year: the Treasury Secretary would have to get the money somewhere. He could borrow some of it, and that was easy: the U.S. was still rich in money and there was almost no place for it to go but Government securities. But the President wanted $51,000,000,000 raised without borrowing-and that was a job for a fiscal Hercules...
...Lend-lease. This act, which expires in June, would be renewed-but only after a searching examination of 1) Lend-Lease Administrator Harry Hopkins, 2) the clause, written into the Lend-Lease agreements, which pledges the U.S. to postwar trade agreements and reduction of tariffs...
Both party caucuses adjourned without action on three major issues that will really test Administration leadership: i) extension of reciprocal trade agreements; 2) extension of Lend-Lease; 3) broadening of Social Security coverage. Rabid Republican partisans and Democratic conservatives may be tempted to wage a political fight on all three. (There are already demands for a Lend-Lease investigation-inspired apparently more by Congressional dislike of Harry Hopkins than of Lend-Lease.) But level heads of both parties wanted no partisan disruption of the war effort...
...close observers of U.S. Lend-Lease aid, one isolated sentence in Franklin Roosevelt's message on the State of the Nation came as a tantalizing mystery: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road...