Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corp. and to Young's crony and financial angel, Allan Kirby, at the same price they had paid: $25 a share. Last week they did sell a big chunk of the stock. Richardson sold 200,000 shares to Kirby, thus repaying the $5,000,000 that Kirby had lent him to buy the stock. Another 300,000 shares, in effect, went to Alleghany Corp. for $7,500,000, the money going to repay a bank loan the Texans had made for the stock purchase. Since the stock was selling for about $23 last week, Kirby and Alleghany lost around...
...those still in the hospital, Anderson puts on a wild-game dinner every fall. Last year he fed 5,000 disabled veterans on 100 deer, 1,500 ducks and numerous quail, geese and elk, all shot by a small army of veterans under Anderson's command, on land lent specially for the annual hunt. Anderson also organized a group of 100 totally disabled men, known as the Rambling Wrecks, supplies them with tickets to sporting events...
Last week Italy's fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists called for its repeal. Premier Mario Scelba (who as De Gasperi's Interior Minister had conceived the law) lent his support to its repeal. The vote: 427 to 75. In renouncing his own law and in joining with the Reds in repealing it, Scelba confessed a galling defeat but did himself no political harm. His government has now lasted four months in office and shows signs of staying power...
Since that time, Overseers are still suspicious and some are still vigilant. But the Overseers, unlike the Corporation, have not merely lent their authority; the Board's powers have slipped away over the years until it is now a channel through which the Corporation and Administration can estimate the alumni attitudes...
...activities of the New York stock market in the past week," commented the CRIMSON urbanely "have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of continental finesse of the pursuit of this world's goods...