Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ndez San Martin, unwilling to appear less ardent than Aloé, joined in the brainwashing. Fixing on the Estrada publishing house as the worst offender, he banned its third, fourth, fifth and sixth-grade readers. Last week cops raided schools and stores to confiscate Estrada books. Congress lent a helping hand: it made Eva Perón's The Explanation of My Life required reading for all schoolchildren...
...where the captives were locked up, the cops reported the haul and the damages. The haul: two 19-year-olds, one a student, the other a bartender, who said they were "crazy" about art and wanted some masterpieces of their own. The damaged paintings: Renoir's Seated Nude, lent by the Chicago Art Institute and valued at $100,000, Picasso's Woman Ironing, lent by a Manhattan collector and valued at $100,000, Bonnard's Self-Portrait, from another Manhattan collector and valued at $25,000, and Gauguin's la Orana Maria, from the Metropolitan Museum...
...Counterattack subscriptions. But by next fall, Keenan, who now has a controlling interest, expects to put out a new product that may give business a lift. He is working on a directory, bigger and broader in scope than Red Channels, that will list people, industry by industry, who have lent their names to or been connected with Communist and front organizations...
...Howard Keel, ran down to his clothing store, snatched 26 raincoats off a rack and hustled them up to the sixth floor of the Sunflower for the official party. He knew Ike's size-42-without asking. And to keep the rain off Ike's glasses, Howard lent his own broad-brimmed hat to the candidate...
McLendon then filed a damage suit for $12 million against the big-league ball clubs under the antitrust laws. Two months ago, with losses running to $66,000 a month, he went back to Oilman Cullen for more money. Cullen lent him $175,000 and told him that was all. Last month, with .losses "getting a little silly," McLendon suspended all Liberty network operations. Last week in a Dallas court, three creditors filed bankruptcy proceedings against McLendon...