Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to its general "un-Harvard" beer-slinging atmosphere, the annual event has lost the Class money. This year, not only was one freshman knocked unconscious after "slipping on some spilled beer," but the affair lost $250, of which one hundred was lent to the Smoker Committee by the Student Council...
...Small-business failures." While profits and returns of big business have gone up, more small businesses have been going under. "One of the first acts of the G.O.P. was to scrap the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which had lent money to small businesses at 5% interest, and substitute a tightfisted Small Business Administration, which lent money at a minimum of 6%-often...
...years the great old man, son of a tenant farmer, had lent dignity and wisdom to the Senate of the U.S. Six times the people of Georgia had returned him to Washington, where he served with distinction on twelve committees, as chairman of five. In the winter of 1955 he was the ranking U.S. Senator, and as the Senate's president pro tern he stood fourth in line of succession to the presidency. Last week, on a warm winter's day in his home town of Vienna, Ga. (pop. 2,200), Senator Walter Franklin George, 77, submitted...
Soft Touch. To Isthmians, Bilgray has always been a generous citizen as well as a storied saloonkeeper. He shelled out thousands to the needy, fed the down-and-out with the Tropic's free lunch, paid fares home for the stranded, lent as much as $5,000 on a few moments' notice. Selling out meant burning $40,000 in old chits. But when a sob story sounded phony, vinegary Max Bilgray could also summon a waiter and say coldly: "Bring Mr. Smith the key to the crying room." In a warm salute to Bilgray, President Ricardo ("Dickie") Arias...
Young was indeed stopped, at least temporarily, in the use of the most powerful financial weapon at his command, the Alleghany Corp., a railroad holding company. By purchasing Alleghany in 1937, Young was able to get control of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Later, Alleghany supplied the funds that Young lent to those impecunious oil millionaires, Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson, so that they could buy Central stock to vote in Young's favor in the proxy fight...