Word: lente
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...other side of the world, another man had reason to ponder the U. S. role in world affairs: H. H. Kung of Chungking, Finance Minister of the Chinese Government. The U. S. had recently lent China $100,000,000, half of which was to bolster its skidding currency. President Roosevelt had just dispatched to Chung king his Administrative Assistant Lauchlin Currie to study the menace of Chinese inflation. In China, 28% uneasily occupied. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek recently had prevented internal disorder by disarming and disbanding the Comunist Fourth Route Army for unsubordination...
...also order any defense article sold, exchanged, transferred, leased, lent; or tested, inspected, proved, repaired, outfitted or reconditioned; for the use of any country he may name-without regard to previous...
...subscriptions on his books, only $6.17 in the bank. So he made an earnest appeal to his subscribers (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week, in New Orleans, Editor Dale had his operation, lay resting in a hospital bed. His subscribers had paid him a little over $100, a friend had lent him the rest...
...rise of fascism completed the intellectuals' conversion. Frightened by the fate of Germany's intelligentsia, delighted by the chance to strike at Naziism in Spain, intellectuals lent their names, prestige, money, often militant support to dozens of committees (many of which they now realize were phony) to fight fascism and aid loyalist Spain...
...Schafer needed a good quotation. That very day Mrs. Anna Weber, of Queens, was getting a judgment against him for $2,500 she said she had lent him and which he had never repaid. Next day a line of ladies began to march into the Attorney General's office with circumstantial stories of how "the money comes...