Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forbidding re-election of Presidents and Governors, Congress as it adjourned put President Abelardo Rodriguez out of the picture. Far forward in the picture came General Lazardo Cardenas, Minister of War and onetime President of the National Revolutionary Party. Last week Boss Calles set out on a Presidential train lent him by President Rodriguez to rest in a hacienda at Ensenada, also lent him "by President Rodriguez. The man he asked to go halfway with him was Cardenas...
...Harriman bought more of the bank's stock. In 1911 the Night & Day became the Harriman National with Joe Harriman still as president. No scandal adhered to Joe Harriman's banking career unless it was that in 1923 the Harriman National, to Wall Street's horror, lent $100,000 to the United Mine Workers. The American Federationist (labor paper) stated apropos Joe Harriman: ''There are constructive minds and honorable characters in all walks of life...
...time of the purchase (secretly made eight months ago), Mr. Mackay resigned as a trustee of the Museum. Either because he was attempting to deny that Clarence Mackay needed the money, or to reassure bankers who are supposed to have lent much money on the security of the Mackay art collection, Director Winlock added a statement to last week's announcement...
Peace has never had the proper kind of publicity. It hasn't lent itself to the copy-starved portables of reporters with the same excitement which war can marshal. It is essentially a tranquil, home-loving, field and stream, house and garden sort of condition. It has never had such valuable props in its kit as patriotism, heroism, bright ribbony medals, brass bands, and the devoted support of the ladies...
...last fortnight, manna in 1-lb. paper bags. Dr. Philip Gootenberg, president of New Jersey's Consolidated Sportsmen, had thought up the idea. The U. S. Department of Commerce had waived its regulation against throwing things from airplanes in flight. Paterson's Wright Aeronautical Corp. had lent a plane and crack pilot. Three times Dr. Gootenberg soared up from Paterson, flew low over inaccessible, snow-covered woodlands, pelting down 750 bags filled with corn, wheat, millet, rye. Consolidated Sportsmen was also busy last week adding 75 bird self-feeders to the 125 it has already placed in remote...