Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago's Century of Progress. Notable Milliken borrowings were Memling's Portrait of a Man Holding a Carnation from J. P. Morgan, a Titian and a Raphael from Paris' haughty Louvre Museum and two great Italian works from Italy's Italico Brass. Among Clevelanders who lent Director Milliken 79 pictures in all were three members of the Hanna family and the estate of Cleveland's Tycoon John L. Severance. Director Milliken, expecting a 75% average, had a 98% success...
...theme song of the Spanish-American War, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, lent itself naturally to the 1904 campaign of Theodore Roosevelt, but eight years later, for his Bull Moose campaign at "Armageddon," his marching song was Onward Christian Soldiers. In the intervening campaign, won by Taft in 1908, his lady admirers sang: Taft for Me, Taft for Me to the tune of Tammany. Woodrow Wilson scorned campaign songs, but in 1916 he was forced to listen often to I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier...
With Mr. Jones's approval the eight railroads* last summer jointly applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to buy M. & St. L. ("The Peoria Gateway"), which has been in receivership for the past 13 years (TIME, Sept. 23). Purchase price was to be $7,200,000, lent by RFC. Last month while I. C. C. hearings were still being held on the plan, Minneapolis citizens got excited, began raising a war chest to fight the M. & St. L.'s dismemberment, asked Congress to go to bat for the integrity of the road. The Senate voted...
...Bilbo protege who had broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison for a job, he was politically down & out. With an old trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague, Senator Harrison backed Senator Stephens...
...onetime farmer and garage mechanic, Leslie C. Peltier is now a commercial draftsman by day. Eighteen years ago, after reading a book called The Friendly Stars, he made his first telescope, a puny two-incher. Both Princeton and Harvard have now lent him larger instruments. He has observed some 47,000 heavenly bodies, is the sole discoverer of two previous comets, co-discoverer of three others. In 1933 Nova Ophiuchi, a variable star which had not flared up since 1898, flared up again. Peltier was the first to see the outburst. Harvard passed on word of it to observatories...