Word: loan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the "Socialist" charge. Hearst Cartoonist T. E. Powers drew a cartoon called "Wall Street Socialists." An elephant with whiskers and a silk hat scowled at a brown-derbied donkey and said: "You're a Socialist!" The donkey retorted: "Me, a Socialist? Oh! Charlie, won't you loan me your whiskers...
Shipping. Defraying three-fourths of the construction expenses of four combined cargo and passenger vessels to total 32,800 gross tons, the Shipping Board last week loaned the Export Steamship Corp. of New York, $4,500,000. This was the loan under the new Jones-White Merchant Marine...
Another provocative item was, "Loans: Oct. 11, 1928, through County Trust Company, 15th Street and 8th Avenue, New York City, $500,000." Chairman Raskob explained, correctly, that "it has been the practice in recent campaigns to resort to this procedure when expenditures run ahead of receipts, as they usually do." The size of the loan thus frankly announced was, however, sensational. To finance the deficit of the 1920 campaign, the Republican party made loans of $600,000 and $167,000 through the Empire Trust Co., of Manhattan...
...pilgrimages. As every Britisher knows. Father Ludwig Mond had come to England from Germany with 40,000 marks, a device for making and bottling soda-water, and infinite faith. That faith was somewhat tremulously shared by Fraulein Henrietta Herz, daughter of Father Ludwig's German landlady, who had loaned him her small capital. As a speculative venture, the loan was one of the most successful in history. Fraulein Herz lived to be repaid 200% each year on her advance. Father Ludwig lived to see his British factory a spectacular success, to create the Brunner Mond Co. and the Mond...
...Phillips Brooks House Text Book Loan Library will open today, it has been announced. The loan Library has at present in the neighborhood of 5,000 text books which it lends to students in the University at the nominal sum of of $.25 a book. Upon the return of the book $.15 will be returned to the borrower...