Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?a $1,500,000 trust fund?and failed...
...directly at Mr. Haugen, who is an lowan, but at Mr. Tincher of Kansas that the President and Secretary Jardine nodded. Mr. Tincher has a bill which would create a Federal Farm Board and endow it with the use of $100,000,000 until 1950. This board would lend its funds to farmers' cooperatives, which would buy and hold the farm surplus so as to maintain farm prices whenever there was an excessive crop. The Administration was willing to indorse this bill, saying that it did not put the government in business...
...stroke under fours and Duncan, with three ragged fives, was three holes down. There, without dramatics, the match ended. Mitchell had won the Roehampton Club's prize of 200 pounds with an ease that made Britishers beam happily above their pipe-bowls in the bar that evening and lend their tongues to prophesy: "Wait till he meets the American. . . . Wait till he meets that Hagen chap...
...Washington ten lengthy documents were released simultaneously last week. They consisted of the official correspondence between the U.S. and Mexico which has been going on in secret since early last winter concerning the new Mexican land and petroleum laws. Most of the documents released last week do not lend themselves to pertinent summary. The significant fact is that both governments appear to consider the subject closed, and the U.S. Administration has intimated throught "spokesmen" that it considers Mexico to have given sufficient assurances that the new laws are not "retroactive and confiscatory," as the U.S. at first protested that they...
...chose a type of Gentleman that is dying out. His hero is a man who will not work and who tries to make an Art out of clothes, cuisine and calling cards. He goes broke and is terribly insulted by sheriffs and by well meaning friends who try to lend him money. In the background hovers, inevitably, a girl, to say nothing of a rich uncle from South America. Lionel Atwill does his very best to make a silk purse out of a stuffed shirt...