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...week's end a placatory 35% wage increase had been granted; the works projects continued. To bolster Premier de Gasperi's Government's sagging morale, word came that the U.S. would send $50 million to reimburse the Italians for lire lent to the U.S. Army...
...stashed away in many safe deposit boxes all over the U.S. It was too bad that he could not get into the U.S. to get the cash right away. A number of Montrealers lent money to the Count to tide him over. Then last July, the Count suddenly vanished...
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...haul; in one day 160 other seiners took 600,000 - worth about $1 apiece. As the sockeyes reached the river's mouth, an armada of 3,500 gillnet boats was waiting. Some novice fishermen were war veterans out for a quick stake. In other boats, the whole family lent a hand; enthusiastic moppets helped parents pay out cork floats and nets over creaking wooden rollers...
...himself into the good graces of Hollywood's Joseph M. Schenck, who once lent him $130,000 worth of stock and, surprisingly enough, got it back...