Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made vice president of Drug Inc., $60,000,000 Liggett holding company. Mr. Clark became Mr. Liggett's Washington lobbyist. He worked against higher duties on drugs and toilet articles in the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, against taxes on cosmetics in the 1932 Revenue Act. Drug Inc. has lent him to the White House, will pay his salary as its campaign contribution...
...business trip, she fell without much of a struggle to Managua, professional lady-killer, and took the affair so hard that her conscience went to her head, nearly drove her off it. Edmond was so nice about it that she gave up lady-killers for a long Lent. Edmond's father died, Denise rushed Edmond to the throne, encouraged him into such a multiplicity of ventures that at last he failed. But by that time they had so much practice in being partners, Denise had unlearned so much intolerance, learned a few good lessons so well, that...
...Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corp. to lend $2,000,000.000 to banks, railways, trust & insurance companies. R. F. C. checked the onrush of bank failures and rail receiverships. Up to last week it had lent $1,054,000,000 to 4,106 institutions...
Kreuger Aftermath. Whom did Ivar Kreuger not deceive? Last week another name was added to the small list of bankers and firms which doubted the late felonious match tycoon. It was that of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. of Manhattan. In January 1931, the bank lent Kreuger & Toll $1,000,000. Vice President Roger Whittlesey then began to check up on Kreuger & Toll statistics, to search for more adequate information. He wrote letters abroad, never received convincing answers. In September the loan was called...
...agreed to an innocuous $322,000,000 construction program which the Treasury, if it chose, could undertake when it had enough cash. On direct relief to the needy the White House view also prevailed when the final bill provided the R. F. C. with $300,000,000 to be lent to states on the basis of need rather than population. The third provision-R. F. C. loans-was the anvil. The final bill provided that the R. F. C. should lend $1,500,000,000 (the Senate figure) not only to states, municipalities and public corporations but also to private...