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...enemy-or more so. Asked the difference between Communism and Fascism, she would say things like: "Though Mr. Stalin is a dictator, his efforts have been to help the people prepare themselves for greater power." In the late '30s she became a godmother to the American Youth Congress, lent it her name and gave it money. Then, hearing that it was Communist-inspired, she called some of its leaders to her White House sitting room, and told them "If any of them were Communists I would quite understand, for I felt they had grown up at a time...
Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island...
...place he once called "the most sinful city" he had ever visited, Washington, D.C. has lent Evangelist Billy Graham a pretty respectful ear. By last week, at the end of a nine-week prayer "crusade" there, Billy had preached to audiences totaling 500,000 people.*Recorded conversions...
...roaring bull on Latin America, where he has spent $24 million exporting Sears' own methods of production and distribution, to the benefit of the masses. In Mexico, where Sears opened its first store in 1947, the company has freely lent money and technical advice to encourage manufacturing, and now buys 80% of its merchandise locally. In Venezuela, where it found few manufacturers geared to its high volume and rigid specifications when it opened its first store two years ago, Sears now buys 30% of its goods. In Brazil, Sears lost money in 1950 but last year Wood said...
Borrowed Horses. Denver's U.S. National Bank, which had lent Ward a total of $476,000, made an inventory last summer of Ward's stock of cars to see if it jibed with his statement to the bank. It didn't. U.S. National threw Ward into receivership, discovered that his $539,000 of "accounts receivable" consisted of money that Ward owed to his own company. J. K. Mullen Investment Co., which had gladly lent Ward another $200,000, also tumbled into receivership...