Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in the Harvard Law School Record, Roscoe Pound, the distinguished onetime dean of the Harvard Law School now on loan to the Chinese Ministry of Justice in Nanking, also tried to clear up some misapprehensions about China. Wrote Dean Pound: "There is by no means the general condition of demoralization, corruption and inefficiency which is portrayed in American newspapers. . . . In the clippings from the American press, which my friends send me from time to time, I can't recognize the land in which I am living. There is no censorship of the press. . . . The papers . . . which...
Last week, the conquerors were making the most of this loot-on-loan. One day the attendance at the National Gallery was 11,895. Lecturers took whole platoons of sightseers through, speaking in sibilant whispers, and on the rim of every cluster gallerygoers jostled to see & hear. But no one could take in everything-the 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, five Botticellis, the Bruegels, Vermeers, three Raphaels, five Jan van Eycks, five Titians, three Watteaus, the Holbeins, Diirers, Hals and the Velasquez...
...York president who will be chairman and chief executive of the new bank, was prompted by the "remarkably similar character" of their business (i.e., largely trust fund management for wealthy individuals). By combining their offices and assets (totaling some $470,000,000), the banks hope to expand commercial loan operations...
...just a poet on loan to politics," said Venezuela's new Foreign Minister Andres Eloy Blanco. "I'm not a foreign Minister, but I will try to make myself...
...Judge" Haussermann floated 200,000 shares of new stock, borrowed $75,000 from the bank, built a new mill and started mining ore. In two years he paid off the bank's loan to Benguet. Gradually, he increased his own stock holdings out of earnings until he owned a controlling interest of about 30%. (His original investment was eventually worth...