Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came tirades against U. S. cinema productions. Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms was propaganda, his papers snarled. U. S. investors in Famous Players-Lasky and in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer did not like this. Their companies had joined a year ago to lend Ufa, Germany's largest cinema producer and controller of 130 theatres in the Reich, $4,000,000. The money was safe, being protected by a mortgage on the great Ufa theatre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. But such articles were not polite; they were invidious...
...came into the War we readily agreed to apply this sound principle to our transactions with our associates. That is to say, we agreed to furnish them the dollars with which all their purchases in the United States should be consummated and, what is more, we agreed to lend them those dollars. This was the origin of these debts. But here is the fact that is not mentioned and which you gentlemen have apparently overlooked...
...Nevertheless the formation of collections of original works of art began almost with the opening of the building. Charles Eliot Norton, made Professor of Fine Arts in 1875, and Professor Charles Herbert Moore, the first director, began to collect drawings and watercolors of the English School. Greek vases were lend by Edward P. Warren and in 1897 and 1898, the Gray and Rrandall print collections, on loan from Harvard in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, were transferred to the Fogg Museum. Later gifts and purchases have made the Fogg collection of early prints and engravings, next to that...
...Passed the Norbeck-Johnson seed loan bill, authorizing the Government to lend $5,000,000 to needy farmers. (Bill went to the President...
...Reserve Bank has a vast reservoir of gold and lawful money to lend out. Each has a vaster credit. For every $100 of specie or currency in its vaults it can issue $250 worth of its own bank notes; and, besides, for every $100 deposited with it it can give almost $200 of credit. The credit of Federal Reserve Banks is as expansive as wishes, and as flexible. Men scoffed at the Federal Reserve Bank law when President Woodrow Wilson approved it in 1913. In 1914, it was thought that the Federal Reserve Banks prevented a U. S. business crisis...