Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy Hines had a sizable brokerage account. In 1929 a bank lent her $88,487.70 to pay off the brokers, took over her securities. Between 1929 and 1937, her bankers received $62,000 from unidentified sources for Mrs. Hines. Only once did Jimmy Hines have a brokerage account in his own name. Then he gambled in $38,000 worth of Johns-Manville stock, lost $5,458 in twelve days, settled with the brokers for $4,000. He and some friends borrowed $132,559.59 from Lawyer Max Steuer to buy 850 shares of stock in the New York Giants (baseball...
Steuer got back some of his money, but lent Mrs. Hines some more and is now owed...
...Having recently visited Führer Hitler at Berchtesgaden, entertained German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop at Warsaw and signed a commercial treaty and reaffirmed a non-aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some of France's colonies, probably Madagascar, where anti-Semitic Poland might...
...more substantial rumors seeped through that German troops had infiltrated Libya. Color to the rumor was lent by the fact that German Storm Troop Leader Viktor Lutze had just "toured" the Libyan frontier as a civilian. Also visiting Libya was Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Chief of the Italian General Staff...
...Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred, 72-to-9. Franklin Roosevelt promised to write Judge Roberts a right interesting letter...