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...Creation of Reconstruction Finance Corp. to lend $2,000,000.000 to banks, railways, trust & insurance companies. R. F. C. checked the onrush of bank failures and rail receiverships. Up to last week it had lent $1,054,000,000 to 4,106 institutions...
...agreed to an innocuous $322,000,000 construction program which the Treasury, if it chose, could undertake when it had enough cash. On direct relief to the needy the White House view also prevailed when the final bill provided the R. F. C. with $300,000,000 to be lent to states on the basis of need rather than population. The third provision-R. F. C. loans-was the anvil. The final bill provided that the R. F. C. should lend $1,500,000,000 (the Senate figure) not only to states, municipalities and public corporations but also to private...
...Recon 000,000,000 in R. F. struction Finance C.'s capital for loans sale"Corp.'s of its capital by the securities to ing"an}'State,person"-corporationormean- (which are indirect ob-individual, ligations of the U.S.) This is fund would be lent to States , counties , cities or public corporations to finance such self-liquidating projects as toll bridges, tunnels , via ducts, waterworks , docks and canals . Only two forms of private industry could borrow from this fund: limited- profit housing corporations fors lumeradication: construction concerns engaged to execute public works programs. Set aside also...
...eunuch, Taabor Pasha, Corisco's highly oriental Prime Minister. French Financier Martignac was making negotiations concerning a loan. At a diplomatic tea given by Mrs. Early, Karadagh's English mistress, the boys met everybody, made friends everywhere. Mr. Jarvis, the capable U. S. minister, was especially friendly, lent them a legation car when they had to leave. In a mountain defile their car hit a hidden barricade, both boys were shot to death. The scandal was immense. Under U. S. pressure Taabor Pasha handed over the government to Karadagh. Attracted by the furor came Star Reporter Manfred...
...stadium and the band have 'one for athletics. The more frequent contact between student and tutor, between sophomore and senior; worth-while conversation in the dining halls; the establishment of discussion groups and Economic societies, stimulated by visiting speakers at House gatherings; the propinquity of House libraries, have lent themselves to an emphasis on academic work as the central task in hand. Harvard has changed physically; but those who value it for the intangible things that have made it famous, may feel assured that the House Plan in its chief influence is one of these...