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...London and New York bankers did not lend that money for the humanitarian purpose of saving Germany," said he. "They lent as ordinary business and banking transactions, to make a profit. They borrowed a good deal of it from France at a low rate of interest and lent at a high rate. There is no reason now why France should assume a part of these burdens...
...Reno's clergy organized against the new régime? Some oppose it, but hope lessly. One apologist for it is Rev. Dr. Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...
...Then, to get some actual money into the deal, three safe deposit companies controlled by Bank of U. S. borrowed $8,000,000 from the bank, bought Premier's shares from Bolivar. Bolivar then paid its debt to Bankus ($4,800,000) with part of the money received, lent Bankus the remaining $3,200,000. Bankus was now able to pay its debt to the bank with money the bank had gratuitously put in the game. In other words, no money ever really changed hands; the bank was still $8,000,000 out of pocket...
...first collection, lent by A. A. Hutchinson, of New York City, is of considerable value from an artistic viewpoint, since it includes work from the hands of the greatest masters of the period. An ink-well by Paul de la Mererie, executed in 1731, is considered the main display in the case. Mererie was forced to leave France after the proclamation of Louis XIV that all silver plates should be melted for the state treasury, and with a considerable number of his fellow-craftsmen, came to England, where he was soon after named Royal Goldsmith. A large "lion" tankard, bearing...
Five rare and significant tapestries have been lent to the Fogg Art Museum, and are now on exhibition in the main room of the building. It is understood that the pieces will be on view throughout the coming summer, and during the first few weeks of the fall term...