Word: loan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nicaraguan President Adolfo Diaz, recognized by the U. S., has been consistently in such close harmony with U. S. nationals that he obtained last March a loan of $1,000,000 from the Manhattan firms of J. & W. Seligman & Co., and the Guaranty Trust Co. Therefore, last week it was only necessary for Presidential Representative Stimson to be firm with the Liberal faction of Nicaragua, whose President, Dr. Juan B. Sacasa, has been recognized as President of Nicaragua by the Mexican Government and has been declared to be the rightful holder of this office by the Chairman...
...year really started lest Spring when we conducted a book drive for the Law Loan Library. About 25 case books were contributed by the students, and a number of others by professors. We have given out every book in the Library which is not obsolete; we have 207 now in use by 85 men. This is a slight decrease from last year. An intensive drive for text-books is planned this spring which will again make the library equal to the demands...
...Light Co.; it went bankrupt. In 1920 bankers saved Armour & Co. from bankruptcy by reorganizing it at J. Ogden Armour's chief cost. In 1923 he was the chief owner of Chicago bank stocks; he had to sell $5,000,000 in stocks to cover a $20,000,000 loan. The receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has cost him a million. But his saddest loss was the forced sale in 1923 of his Melody Farm, $5,000,000 estate of forests, fountains, lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Ambassador Hotel announced a new convenience for guests?free loan of cameras with which to snap-shoot vacation scenes and the glories of Atlantic City...
President Diaz (recognized by the U. S.) announced last week that, aided by a $1,000,000 loan placed in Manhattan, he will be able from now on to pay his Conservative soldiers 50¢ a day. As an earnest of this the Conservative troops were reported to have received a flat payment of $2.50 each last week, pending the arrival of promised U. S. gold...