Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoned by Senator Wheeler last week was RF Chairman Jesse Jones to give his views on the Terminal contract. Mr. Jones, it seemed, had lent MOP $17,000,000 before he had any inkling that the railroad was involved in commitments which were draining off $1,600,000 in much-needed cash annually. Neither to RFC nor to ICC, let alone its own stockholders, had the railroad disclosed the existence of the contracts. Belatedly Mr. Jones laid the facts before the U. S. Attorney General for possible fraud prosecution, but by then action was outlawed by a statute of limitation...
This entertainment consisted of several songs, various games, and piano and banjo playing by several members of the Instrumental Club. The Massachusetts General Hospital lent the Committee a lust pig for a magician's act. Following this, refreshments of ice cream and cake were served...
...morning, it was unanimously decided that Major County should secede from the Union and go independent. Versing their thoughts on the surrounding counties who had let them down so ignominiously, it was decided there was absolutely no respect to be commanded from them nor the slightest degree of dignity lent and so therefore the only sensible thing to do was secede from the Union." To establish the bona fides of the new nation, a list of its public officials was appended: President, Alf M. Landon; Vice President, Frank Knox; Secretary of State, Alfred E. Smith; Secretary of the Treasury...
...which British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden recently said that Germany in the period of Reparations borrowed 18 billion marks and paid less than eight billion, the Count by implication called Mr. Eden a liar. "The losses Germany suffered through tribute," roared Count Schwerin von Krosigk, "far exceeded the capital lent...
...works ever held in this country. Over 100 paintings, drawings and prints went on view; there were even a small bronze figure and four photographs taken by Degas. To make the show a success, the Louvre, greatest art museum in the world, magnanimously postponed its own projected Degas show, lent three important canvases. These with the rest of the borrowed works put something on the wall for every type of art lover. In portraits there was the sensitive picture of the artist's young brother, Achille, as a gold-laced aspirant in the French Navy. In sporting pictures there...