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Some respectful and some grinning, the visitors crowded around two paintings, Millet's Sower (lent by the Provident Trust Co.) and Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema's Reading from Homer. A few of the oldest and boldest confessed that Millet and Alma-Tadema still looked great to them...
...Class of 1921 wistfully toasted the memory of the finest escapist of them all, Classmate Richard Halliburton, lost at sea seven years ago as he followed his Royal Road to Romance. Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads-some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief...
...exception was A. P. Giannini's giant Bank of America. It has continued to lend the legal maximum of 60% of market value. Result: last April, Bank of America lent $26,996,000 in Los Angeles County while the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles lent only $2,399,000 (in 1941, Bank of America lent less than twice as much as Security-First National...
...assert itself as the "senior" body, took a different approach. OPA was to die a lingering death, with subsidies continued until May, 1947, and with no automatic abolishment of controls until a special three-man board had reviewed the problem for each specific item. But then the upper chamber lent an ear to the lobbies. New England's dairy groups, the Midwest meat-producers, and the Senators from the oil states put in a specific ban against price ceilings on any of their products. There was still a ceiling, but the most important items in a family's budget were...
Whitney loves acclaim: his official biographer refers to him as "the miracle man of railroad wage movements." He considers himself a political leader on the liberal side, likes to quote Single-Taxer Henry George. He has lent his name to several left-wing organizations, some of them Communist-hued. He was an early and ardent supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and thought several times that he would become his Secretary of Labor...