Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee have done everything in their power; the Faculty have lent their support. The Freshman must be regarded as raw material, from which no initiative ought to be expected. And the advisors, even though they feel little responsibility and less interest, have certain duties which they have accepted. To obtain the best results, the spirit of the advisors should be otherwise. But taking it as it exists; there is still the obligation to carry out the task assigned, which it is difficult, in all conscience to resist...
...personages of early New England are now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library, as well as some books which belonged to the Reverend William Cook of Salem, the famous preacher poor and artist. A collection of commemera Italy, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Roumania and other countries lent by M. William M. Welch of Boston is also on exhibition...
...Clarence C. Chase, son-in-law of ex-Secretary Fall, refused to testify before the oil committee, on the grounds that it might incriminate him. Another witness had declared that Mr. Chase had tried to induce a Cleveland man to say he had lent Mr. Fall the now notorious $100,000. The Senate unanimously passed a resolution, suggesting that the House start impeachment proceedings against Chase, who is Collector of Customs at El Paso. Chase submitted his resignation to Secretary Mellon who accepted it on the following...
...steel man from Cleveland testified that ex-Secretary Fall had asked him to say that he had lent Mr. Fall the now notorious $100,000?in other words that he had refused the favor which Wm. B. McLean, Washington newspaper proprietor, later performed...
...special agent of the Department of Justice, at a salary of $1 a year. McLean's connection with the oil scandal is that he gave tentative assent to Mr. Fall's attempt to make the investigating committee believe that a newspaper publisher, not an oil magnate, had lent him $100,000. ¶ The publication of a telegram from Mr. Doheny to .Senator Walsh, investigator, saying "Merry Christmas from Mrs. Doheny and me to you and yours" and asking whether the Senator would take part with him in an oil venture in Montana. The telegram was sent before...