Word: lente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Budget; 2) no more public borrowing; 3) credit expansion by the Federal Reserve Banks; 4) local charity to relieve distress; 5) a five-day government week; 6) a Home Loan Discount system; 7) authority for Reconstruction Finance Corp. to borrow an additional billion and a half dollars to be lent States unable to care for their needy and to private industry unable to secure credit elsewhere...
Huddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) contains precisely the amount of theatricals that a college cinema apparently needs in order to exist. But it contains no cinematic collegiates. It is lent unusual authenticity because all the scenes were taken on the Yale campus, because more than the expected number of actual football shots are shown, and because the hero, who is no gentleman, only ties the score in the final game with Harvard...
When John Hughes Curtis began to tell his tale of mysterious boat trips and constant failures to bring Col. Lindbergh into contact with the men he said were in possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the fishing smack on which he had supposedly interviewed the child's captors. The Coast Guard sent 39 craft and three amphibian planes to find it, with no success. His identification of the criminals by nicknames proved similarly untrustworthy. At last, early on the fifth morning after the child's body...
...Company to Mr. Sinclair Lewis, published in facsimile in the New Republic. The advertiser offered Mr. Lewis four hundred and fifty dollars and the honor of being included in a series of "dignified advertisements" indorsing silk socks, to which Messers Floyd Gibbous, James Montgomery Flagg, and George Ade had lent their names and faces. The novelist's only duty was to give his photograph and approve the copy; one suspects that the Realsilk Hosiery Company has never seen Mr. Lewis...
...night on this reconstruction job." Of larger importance than the Bonus was Mr. Dawes's testimony on the economic state of the Union as viewed from the R. F. C.'s presidency. To the committee he explained that in its first 77 days his agency had lent $370,347,802 to 1,757 institutions, of which 1,520 were banks. Answering the criticism that R. F. C. favors large banks over small ones, he declared that 23% of its loans had been in towns under 10,000, 68% in cities under 100.000. He vigorously defended...