Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Burns had been notably casual in his attitude toward Jacksonville's blooming racial conflict, his action infuriated the city's younger Negroes. Explained Ernest Lent, executive director of Jacksonville's Human Relations Council, later: "The leaders kept their anger under control, but the young people couldn't help but react. For a lot of them, of course, this was just an excuse to raise hell...
...Hitler's campaign to exterminate the Jews? Last week in Rome, Eugène Cardinal Tisserant, Dean of the College of Cardinals, more or less agreed with those Catholics who argue that a statement by Pius would not have stopped the genocide. At the same time, the Frenchman lent support to critics who insist that the Pope, as a moral authority, should have spoken...
...Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Tulsa, subsequently sold 1,500 shares to Edward Levinson and 1,600 shares to Ben Sigelbaum, a seldom-seen Miami pal of Levinson's. For his part, Baker had other well-oiled bank connections. Washington's District of Columbia National Bank lent him an unsecured $125,000 for the full cost of Baker's new Washington home because, a bank officer testified, Baker was "a gentleman with innumerable friendships and connections." Baker's house, into which he moved last fall with Wife Dorothy and the five Baker children, ages...
...Garden Street rendered the Radcliffe girl precious moments of solitary contemplation. Long has it provided her the fleeting opportunity to establish a Thou relationship with Nature and its secret beauties. Time was when her wispy passage cheered motorists wending disconsolately to work, when her stringy hair and unpainted lips lent gay decoration to the Cambridge Common. The Radcliffe Bus Service has sealed her decline. Glutted with uncalled-for comfort, she shall grow fat and superficial--too soon to occupy her place among the matrons of America...
...contributions to rising productivity." Then he cited three Government actions: "In 1961 the Administration's quick antirecession program got recovery off to a flying start; in 1962, in sharp contrast to 1960 and 1957, rising federal purchases, new tax incentives to investment, and continued credit ease lent a steadying hand to an economy whose advance was faltering; in 1963, prospects of a tax cut buoyed a reassured and resurgent economy...