Word: lente
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significance for the Nation. Governor Smith's action lent a new inspiration to the Wet cause. Already a movement is under way to attempt a similar repeal of a state enforcement law in Wisconsin, although it is, to say the least, dubious of success. The outcome in New York will also place renewed burdens on the already overtasked Federal Prohibition Department. It also may help to force prohibition into one of the leading issues of the 1924 cam-paign.-if the two great parties dare to take it up, or can agree within their ranks on what stand...
Austria is being lent 130 million dollars, of which J. P. Morgan & Co. will float 25 million in America. Preliminary arrangements were completed in Paris by Thomas W. Lamont, a Morgan partner...
...Chinese General Chamber of Commerce lent its complaining voice to that of the rickshaw experts. It petitioned the Government to cancel the contract on the ground that it would ruin thousands of rickshaw coolies. "Besides, there is foreign money behind the trolley car company...
...close of the war, out courses were not given until the following year, 1919-20. All equitation at this time was done in the Commonwealth Armory until Major Goets succeeded in having the stables on Soldiers Field built, and having the entire organization centralized. The United States has lent nearly $1,000.000 in equipment to the unit in 1919, 100 men took courses in the department; today this number has become 300. The R. O. T. C. unit has made possible a polo team for the University and has organized pistol-shooting as an undergraduate sport. These various achievements were...
...almost certain that the Curzon speech was a British diplomatic feeler intended to bring about an end to the Ruhr impasse, which is a great source of worry to British commercial interests. Strength is lent to this contention by Bonar Law, the British Prime Minister, taking a holiday. His voice was considerably weakened by a recent attack of laryngitis, but he has always taken an active part in cabinet affairs. It is inconceivable that he would leave London unless a plan having his approval as head of the Government had already been decided. The inference is that the Curzon speech...