Word: lente
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...British a break last week on the forced liquidation of British-owned U.S. companies to pay for war supplies. Satisfied that in today's market British-American Tobacco Co. might have trouble getting $40,000.000 for their Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. subsidiary (Wings, Kool, Raleigh, Avalon), he lent them the money, left them a chance to salvage their investment, when the loan is paid off in ten years...
Albert Johnson-a wealthy, retired insurance man who made a stake in Missouri zinc before the turn of the century-says he has "lent" Scotty a great deal of money over the years since they met in 1904. "He repays me," Mr. Johnson explains, "in laughs." Mr. Johnson is reputed to be quite a kidder himself...
...more important to that battle was an agreement made Math Danish Minister Henrik de Kauffmann allowing the U.S. to build bases in Greenland (see p. 22) whence planes can spot German submarines and surface raiders, to protect U.S. lent or leased war materials bound for Britain. If Minister de Kauffmann had a questionable legal right to sign such a paper, at least the moral justification of it was sound. The President was getting tough; and everyone, even Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, liked...
...motion-picture producer; and Nurse Romelle Theresa Schneider, 25, who attended him after his ulcers operation at Rochester, Minn, in 1938; one month after the divorce of Betsy Gushing Roosevelt, surgeon's daughter, became final, and two days after Catholic Nurse Schneider had finished observing Lent; in Los Angeles. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt flew from Boston, where she had seen her niece married, to attend the ceremony. Sister and Brother-in-law Ann and John Boettiger came down from Seattle. The five Roosevelt siblings have now been married a total of eight times...
...connection with the founding of the society and Pan American day, an exhibit of South and Central American craftsmanship, lent by the daughters of Mrs. Edmund P. Graves, the Peabody Museum, and the Fogg Museum was also opened yesterday in Fogg...