Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grown to be the nation's most powerful bank, a financial monstrosity with a "resource potential" of more than $14 billion which it could lend to states, municipalities, private banks, private businessmen, private citizens. In a 12-story building on Vermont Ave., amidst chromium and marble, in a magnificent air-cooled hush preside the giants who control this enterprise-the five directors. Harry Truman thought George should he one of them...
...familiar crackle. When Murray Garsson's son Captain Joseph H. Garsson-of the Chemical Warfare Service, of course-was court-martialed and convicted for refusing to obey an order to emplace his 4.2 mortar company on the battlefield, it was Andy May who had turned up to lend a helping hand...
...making a research report on Fascism, Naziism, Socialism, Communism, the Atlantic Charter, Lend Lease, League of Nations, Moscow Conference, UNRRA, International Monetary Fund, Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Dumbarton Oaks Conference and proposals, Pan American Union, Good Neighbor Policy, San Francisco Conference, the United Nations Organization and charter. . . . 7 would appreciate it if you would send me any information you have on these subjects...
...Insubstantial Pageant." Bullitt's good friend, the late President Roosevelt, made one of the most disastrous errors in U.S. history, says Bullitt, when he furnished Lend-Lease aid to the U.S.S.R. without exacting, in return, assurances of a pacific Soviet foreign policy in the postwar period. Present U.S. leaders, Bullitt believes, will make an even worse error if they pin their faith to the "insubstantial pageant" of U.N. Bullitt believes that no doubt remains that Soviet aims stop short at nothing less than domination of the globe. Western Europe, the Middle East and the British Empire will, says Bullitt...
...never seem able enough to reach the necessary pitch of excitement. Lederer's villainy is often unconvincingly sinister, while Miss Shields, in the difficult role of a sweet young thing who is preyed upon and is nearly driven to distraction, rarely reaches the emotional heights of fear which could lend a heightened note of terror to the play...