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...When one of his roommates complained that Herbert badly needed a haircut, he answered gravely "De gustibus..." and left it to his listener to supply the ending. And when his other roommate asked to borrow ten dollars for a date, Herbert came back with "Neither a borrower nor a lender be, and it shall follow as night the day thou canst not be false to any man." "Oh shut up," said the roommate...
...ailing grocery and restaurant business of Nixon's brother Donald, was made secretly through a Hughes attorney and secured by a filling-station lot owned by Nixon's mother in hometown Whittier. Donald went broke the following year, and the filling station property-on which a commercial lender had offered to put up only $92.000-was accepted by Hughes in full settlement of the debt...
...operations flexible. Sample: massive stabilization loans ($100 million to Mexico, $25 million to Chile) are not meant to be spent but to give a psychological lift to a currency threatened by inflation or devaluation. But further than that Waugh will not go, or even look. "I'm a lender, not a giver," he says, and he proudly claims a default rate of less than 1%. The bank has reserves of over $600 million, and an uncommitted lending balance of more than $2 billion...
...Curiously enough, Addison's biggest defenders are some of the lenders themselves-dentists, schoolteachers, businessmen, an accountant, and lots of old ladies. When he was on trial for theft and conspiracy last year in San Antonio, his supporters showed up in the courtroom wearing white ribbons that proclaimed: I AM A SATISFIED LENDER TO JOHN MILTON ADDISON (he was acquitted). Twice, in the past five months, his satisfied lenders gave $200-a-plate dinners for him. They have also turned out regularly for revival-style meetings to cheer him on in his fight against "the interests." Typical performance...
...money finder because he knows which insurance companies, savings banks, pension funds, or other sources have funds to loan, how much interest they want, and how to tailor each loan application to appeal to the loan-fund manager's personal preferences in collateral. For his services in introducing lender and borrower, Clark collects 1% of the gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder he has done wonderfully well...