Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deficit after the Landon debacle was more than $1,000,000), and Kemper obviously had more on his mind than economy. It was the bipartisan foreign policy. Kemper had been much under attack as an isolationist (in 1941, as president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he opposed lend-lease). His Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. had sponsored Isolationist Upton Close's broadcasts during...
Last month the filmsters went back to Much Wenlock to shoot Gone to Earth's climactic scenes. They found a new and unexpected chill in the Shropshire air: there was not a Master of Foxhounds in sight who would lend a pack of hounds to them. They tried farther afield, but the Sports Society had done its work well. "We gave no orders to any M.F.H.," explained its Assistant Secretary Michael Shephard. "We simply advised them that in the opinion of the B.F.S.S. it was inadvisable to cooperate in the making of this film." Dejected, the moviemakers returned...
...last night William V. H. Mason '51, spokesman for the five student philanthropists, complained "we've asked at every boat house and fish wharf up and down the Charles, and no one will lend us a boat--not even for cash...
...served there on various wartime boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
...first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into a musicomedy. As rehearsals began in Manhattan, a photographer recorded an unrehearsed resemblance between Author Loos and the 1949 version of her heroine, up & coming Comedienne Carol (Lend an Ear) Channing...