Word: lente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan merely because he has ceased to make them the butt of his new stories. Much more convincing are "his generosity to the needy people of the ward" and his improvement in the sewerage system which eliminated the danger of flooded cellars. To his job as Councillor, Sullivan has lent a "glamor" which "The Boston Evening American" admits "would take a whole page" to describe and which is rivaled only by B.D.D. Frazier in her own Ward. For the Harvard voter there is but one choice for City Councillor, and if he is slightly hesitant, Sullivan's folder provides...
...step up immediate trade, the U. S. Export-Import Bank lent Chile...
Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course...
Three years ago Phoenix became interested in Loft, Inc., a $10,000,000 Manhattan candy-&-restaurant chain. It lent Loft some $600,000. It also dug into its strongbox for collateral on which Loft borrowed another $400,000 in bank loans, further backed up by Phoenix' endorsement. For such help in a crisis Phoenix got options on 300,000 shares of Loft at $1.50, on 200,000 shares additional at $2. But since Loft had lost money every year since 1934 this did not look like too promising an investment. Last year Loft stock got down...
...Suffolk, the county of his birth. At Bury St. Edmunds, 87 miles from London, where the Magna Charta was drawn up, Mayor Harry Isaac Jarman prepared to open a Munnings exhibit. Of the 61 canvases he had gathered, 15 were recent paintings of blue-blooded hunters and racers lent by the artist, seven were early studies of country horses lent by the city of Norwich. To the seven, Munnings made violent objection: six were "childish beginnings" that he had outgrown, one he had not even painted. He insisted that all seven come down...