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What about the Soviet Union? "I have always favored withdrawing recognition from Russia. I never favored recognition from the start. . . I don't like to lend dignity and respect to an outfit that says they're out to bury...
Pennywise, back in 1790, Benjamin Franklin bequeathed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia ?1,000 sterling to be used for loans to "young married artificers under the age of 25 years." Trouble is, there's a definite shortage of young artificers. Boston last year finally decided to lend the money to medical students; Philadelphia settled on upping the requirement age to 35. Still, at accounting time last week, it seemed that Poor Richard's advice that "he that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing" was being followed. Only $288,720 of Boston...
Savings and loan associations are now run by professionals who make all the decisions, though most of them are still legally mutual associations. S & Ls have an advantage over banks in making home loans because they can lend up to 90% of the cost of a house with 30 years to pay, while banks are limited by Federal Reserve Board flat to 75% and 20 years. But in the past two years, the bankers and S & Ls have been hammering away at each other in an interest-rate war that has skyrocketed rates on savings deposits. With the mortgage market...
...project, aware that a commitment won from it would impress financiers around the world. After two months of investigating the Milanese economy, Dillon, Read approved the loan at a 1% lower interest rate than Milan could have got in Italy. "They'll soon be standing in line to lend us money," crowed the triumphant Bassetti-and he was right. Last week the line was growing, with British and Swiss bankers at its head...
...Harriman's remarkable series of Government posts centered around these major jobs: 1934-35, a division administrator, then a special assistant to the administrator, and then chief administrative officer of NRA; 1940-41, executive in the Office of Production Management; 1941-42, Lend-Lease expediter in London with rank of minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving ECA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security; 1955-58, Governor of New York; 1961, Ambassador...