Word: lent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reference to Mr. Townsend's letter in TIME for August 6, I should like to tell the story as I have always heard it-which is that when Mr. Wanamaker was a young man some old friend lent him a certain sum of money to help him start in business on condition that no playing cards should ever be sold in his store...
...moment when the corporations may need it; and 2) that too much money is diverted to speculation, too little to the economic needs of the U. S. Councils of war followed. Bankers considered increasing the charge made for placing the loans, fixing a minimum amount to be lent. Corporations countered by throwing an additional $36,913,000 on the call loan heap. Cried Charles Edwin Mitchell, president of the National City Bank: "It is a dangerous and unhealthy trend." Said able Vice President Francis Hinckley Sisson of the Guaranty Trust Co: "This is one of the by-products of prosperity...
...celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert, Vienna held last week its Saengerfest, the tenth Congress of German Singing Societies to which no less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...
...liquor taxes of Colombia, like those of Panama (see above), have been pledged along with other taxes to repay $31,665,500 lent from the Liquor Prohibiting U. S. Therefore U. S. investors were vexed, last week, with Colombians who inaugurated a regime of partial prohibition...
Smiling and sitting back in the seat of the boiling car Meyer shook all the hands he could reach. A few days before a friend had lent him money enough to buy his car, an overhauled Miller Special. A year ago he rode a few laps as relief driver for Wilbur Shaw...