Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carolina, President Hoover spoke of the purity and inherent rightness of American institutions, but surely whatever the moral correctness of its institutions, no other country in the world would countenance the spectacle of the recent American Legion Convention in Boston. The highest official of what other land would have lent his presence to what in effect is merely an excuse for a wholesale brawl, exceeding in its disgusting completeness any similar spectacle the United States have to offer...
Many Textbooks Lent...
Approximately 1000 textbooks have been lent to students for the nominal sum of ten cents per book per year. The Library Committee of the Association has also subscribed to a number of periodicals and magazines which will be placed in the Shepard Room at Brooks House. The Handbook Committee supervised the publication and distribution of about 2500 copies of the Harvard Handbook. This booklet was given to all Freshmen and graduate students coming to Harvard for the first time. The Law School Committee loaned approximately 300 case books to law students for $.25 a year per book. The Graduate Schools...
...relations and Great Britain, chief U. S. rival in Argentina, was about to follow suit. U. S. businessmen in Buenos Ayres were cabling anxiously, begging the State Department to hurry and save them from economic disadvantage. Yet Statesman Stimson felt he must not act too promptly lest color be lent to the rumors that the U. S., ill-favored in the Argentine under the regime of ousted President Irigoyen, had encouraged and perhaps abetted his overthrow. Statesman Stimson combined suavity with speed last week by simply including the week-old Argentine government in an announcement recognizing the new governments...
Unlikely as this might seem, two factors lent it credence. Last week Diamond Match prepared for a great capital reorganization. Causes of this were: 1) unfavorable taxation features in its present charter; 2) the lack of marketability in its highly priced, closely held stock. To stockholders the reorganization is one of the nicest gifts of an almost giftless year. For each share of common they will receive four new shares of common, five of participating preferred, a $25 cash bonus...