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Rancher Thornton sold a prize steer for a charity benefit (see cut), Ward cheerfully made the high bid of $6,000. Just as cheerfully, Thornton later lent Ward $10,000 for a quick deal in return for a postdated $12,500 check (the extra $2,500 was to be Thornton's profit). The governor was puzzled when the check bounced...
...four or five years," said Oliphant. "I make no effort to minimize our friendship. Our relations were essentially social. I visited him at his apartment [in Washington], at his places in Florida and New Jersey." They often had lunch together, and Grunewald always picked up the check. Yes, Grunewald lent Sim money-$1,300 some time last year. Furthermore, Oliphant had given jobs in his bureau to people suggested by Grunewald...
...editor of the pro-Communist magazine Amerasia, and was about to arrest him. Then one day, John Stewart Service, a lean-jawed, young State Department foreign service officer just back from China, walked into Jaffe's hotel room in Washington and into the range of FBI microphones. Service lent Jaffe a sheaf of State Department reports on China, some stamped "secret" and "confidential." In four separate hotel-room sessions, he talked to Jaffe at great length about U.S. policy in China, twice cautioning Jaffe that the information he gave him was "very secret" or "confidential...
...years, George has seen thousands of children come & go. He lent them money and bought them presents. Often he paid for school equipment out of his own pocket, and at Christmas he would buy a paper mural of the Nativity for the cafeteria, "just because I figured it was a good thing for the kids to look...
...financial problem, H.A.A. support comes to $300 annually--enough to buy ski wax, and to cover breakages--so skiing is lent the distinction of being the most expensive sport for enthusiasts in the College. For example, Houser calculates that a "four event man," or competitor who can handle downhill jumping, slalom, and cross country, will have to pay up to $420 maximum for his complete equipment of skis, boots, bindings, and clothing...