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...Lent Maine's U.S. Senator Frederick Payne $3,500 to make a down payment on his house near Washington, has not been repaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Goldfine's Exit | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

...hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble with Government agencies. Neither the secondhand reassurances of the President nor the rearguard action of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty could do very much to take the sensation out of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Broken Rule | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...what belongs to you." A fair man who sometimes seemed hard, he had captained the first Texas A. & M. football team to beat the University of Texas (12-0. in 1902), and he sternly threw out tenants who had no good reason for defaulting on their rent. But he lent money freely when times were hard, would let a family fall behind on the rent if there were good reasons for it. Quietly he made no-interest loans to his tenants to help put their children through high school. By 1951 he was a millionaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Repaying the Rent | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...have been taken as a commentary on the stock market, which could stand only so much experimentation before it toppled over dead on Black Thursday. In an editorial entitled "Taking Stock," the CRIMSON noted that the "activities of the New York stock market in the past week have doubtless lent force to the opinions of the more austere European critics who have so often blamed this country for the lack of the continental finesse in the pursuit of this world's goods...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Depression, House System Mark '33's Harvard Years | 6/10/1958 | See Source »

Bearcats and trips to Europe. She studied Sanskrit at the University of Chicago, and grew interested in Buddhism after her family doctor lent her a book on the subject. By the time she was in her early 205 she had decided that "Christianity fell far snort of what I expected from religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Zen Priest | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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