Word: lends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anselmo Bonin, accustomed to boasting that he had a great fortune in gold and who was always ready to lend to his neighbors, was disturbed by a visit from four masked bandits. Bonin refused to divulge the hiding place of his gold hoard and the bandits first beat him " until his body was a mass of blood and bruises," then broke his bones. The victim was reported unwilling to speak, so the bandits roasted him over a fire in the kitchen hearth; then left him for dead. Bonin was not dead! No trace of the inquisitioners was found...
...ruling by Attorney General Daugherty stated that national banks might have branches in the cities of their location, but such branches could only accept deposits and cash checks, and not lend money or purchase securities...
...FOOL -Sabatini -Houghton Mifflin ($2.00). Colonel Randall Holies, sometime of the Parliamentary Army that crushed Charles I, regicide's son and broken adventurer, found little scope in the Merry England of Charles II for his sword. Hounded by poverty and evil fortune, he stooped at last to lend himself to a discreditable plot of the Duke of Buckingham's-the abduction of the beautiful actress, Sylvia Farquharson, for his Grace's amorous purposes. But the vile act once accomplished, and the well known Sylvia discovered to be his boyhood sweetheart, Holies proved properly heroic-spitted Buckingham...
...indifference on the part of colored youths to the medical and dental professions, but because of limited facilities. Howard University, one of the colleges that gives this training, is obliged to turn away over two-thirds of those who seek admission because of inadequate laboratory space. These facts lend point to an announcement by the Department of Interior that it has included in its appropriation for next year $500,000 to improve the plant of Howard University- thereby doubling the number of medical students that the University can train...
Hungary's chief need was foreign capital, if only for the movement of crops. Economic conditions in Hungary are good, but capital is of vital importance. No foreign power will lend without control; the Little Entente is in a position to block all loans, unless it is given control; the Hungarians don't want Little Entente control, they want money. The dilemma is unescapable. Only the gradual weakening of the Little Entente, prophesied at Budapest, can afford the Magyars consolation...