Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Russia at her worst has done nothing worse than France has done! France has repudiated four-fifths of her national debts, and there are many British people who patriotically lent money to France during the War who have been practically ruined by France bilking her national obligations...
...Gallery XVII there are several notable loans which will probably remain in the Museum's hands over the summer. Mr. Samuel Sachs of New York City has lent three pictures. Of these two are by Poussin, one representing the Holy Family and the other a classical scene. "Diana" by Tintoretto, a picture which Mr. Sachs lends annually to the Fogg for a period of six months, also appears in this gallery. John Nicholas Brown '22 has lent to the Museum an excellent picture by El Greco entitled "Saint Dominic." Most of the important paintings which were removed from this room...
...American collection owned by the Fogg Museum has been reinstalled in Gallery XVI. In the Great Hall there appear three sixteenth century Flemish tapestries representing the "Glory of the Virgin" which have been lent to the Museum by Mr. Felix Warburg of New York City, and a fourth tapestry which is believed to be from the same series but which has been lent anonymously...
Matches. A shrewd bargainer is Swedish Match Co. To obtain exclusive match concessions, it has lent money, bought securities from many impoverished governments. But Swedish Match is interested in matches, not money. And Swedish Match has an active and able financing company in the form of Kreuger & Toll Co., largest stockholder in Swedish Match, headed by Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger (TIME, Oct. 1). Last week, therefore, through a syndicate headed by Lee, Higginson & Co., Kreuger & Toll offered $50,000,000 debentures to acquire securities now owned by potent Swedish Match...
...difficult to tell whether the players are in on the joke. They are as incredible as the plot but that may be just part of the game. Certainly no one was ever more villainous than Arthur Vinton, and without a black moustache, too. The only touch of reality is lent by Betty Lancaster, an ingenue with the makings of a Future...