Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect he said, "We have done all we can to help industry. While it was on its back, we filled its place by hiring millions. When destructive competition threatened, we stepped in and fixed prices and wages, thus helping industry last through its troubles. When banks were weak, we lent money to them, we bought their assets, we guaranteed their deposits. But we cannot do this forever. Now is the time for private industry and banks to take the burden off our shoulders. The government has done its part. Let industry muster its courage, take risks again, expand...
...Marquisa de Pontejos, No.1 Goya in the U. S., is a portrait of a lady with a bouffant skirt, a single rose and a lively little pug dog. It was last seen publicly in Madrid in 1928 when Mr. Mellon lent it to the great Goya Centennial Exposition. Carman Messmore of the Knoedler Galleries calls it "probably the finest Goya in the world...
...mere mimic part to Richard Harrison; it is a full-time job, onstage and off. For the members of the cast, he is just short of an actual deity. He arbitrates their squabbles and since they are mostly professional actors from Harlem, they periodically have to be lent money. Actor Harrison is known as "Two Dollar" Harrison to his colleagues because he is always available for a loan to that extent...
...Actually lent was $3,860,000,000 (exclusive of purchases of preferred stock in banks and insurance companies), of which $2,364,000,000 or 61% had been repaid...
...rural, intensely Catholic Bavaria last week Staatsminister Hermann Esser decreed that during the carnival preceding Lent there shall be no Nazi saluting. Since handshaking has become "counterrevolutionary" in Nazidom, Herr Esser decreed that in carnival the proper greeting is to place one's right hand over the heart...