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...Chambers had testified that in the fall of 1937, Hiss lent him $400 to buy a car. Records of a Baltimore automobile company showed that Esther Chambers bought a car on Nov. 23, 1937. The Government looked at the Hisses' Washington bank account, found it showed a withdrawal of $400 on Nov. 19, 1937. The Hiss explanation was that they used the money to buy furniture. The importance of these bits of documentary evidence to the Government was that they established the Chamberses' intimate knowledge of the Hisses' private affairs more than a year after Hiss testified...
...International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which has lent $125,100,000 to Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), took another step last week to help carry out President Truman's Point Four development program in South America. The bank announced that a team of nine experts, headed by ex-Brain Truster Lauchlin Currie, would spend three months studying ways to increase Colombia's wealth...
...ashamed to face his family and his neighbors. To his astonishment they were overwhelmed with pride and admiration-"the onliest real fine things we've ever had"-and the dogs brought him a kind of backwoods fame and prosperity. Bootleggers treated him with respect, the AAA lent him fertilizer for his fields, a dog-loving storekeeper advanced him credit, and the whole countryside conspired to keep his secret when he did a little moonshining to get the family through the winter...
...first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
Saturday was Alumni Day at Soldiers Field, and the varsity baseball team lent official recognition to the affair by dropping an 8 to 5 decision to a squad of former Crimson players...