Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month ago, Harvard and Yale simultaneously announced that they were withdrawing from the NDEA student loan program, pending removal of the affidavit. Then, at his press conference last week, President Eisenhower--although deploring the withdrawal of Harvard, Yale and other institutions--indicated that he understood their objections. He said that he favors repeal of the affidavit and retention only of the oath of allegiance...
...Richmond, and liveliest museum director is the man who runs it, Leslie Cheek Jr., 51. Since taking over eleven years ago, Yale-trained Director Cheek has doubled his museum space, added a theater for nightly concerts, lectures, classic old movies, and local repertory-company performances. He organized an art loan program to Virginia's main towns, built the world's first "artmobile" (an air-conditioned trailer truck that houses a miniature exhibition on wheels) to bring art to the hinterlands...
Asked about the National Defense Education Act, he asserted that Boston University's stand was "wiser' than Harvards outright rejection of government funds. B.U. has permitted students to participate in the loan program for one more year, "giving Congress a chance to work things out," he said. McCormack evaded questions concerning the fate of any bill in the next Congress which called for repeal of the loyalty affidavit requirement...
...loan program, one of the glories of last year's National Defense Education Act, encourages needy potential schoolteachers and superior students of science and language. This year the Government is lending $30 million to 1,365 schools (which add $1 for every $9 of U.S. money) to aid about 120,000 students. The trouble is one small clause: every borrower must not only 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., but 2) file an affidavit that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches, the overthrow...
...Kansas City, determined to make a go of greeting cards. The venture almost died as soon as it started; Hall was $17,000 in debt when a flash fire wiped out his printing plant. Luckily, he was able to sweet-talk a local bank into an unsecured $25,000 loan, and he has not taken a step back since. By the late 19303, Hallmark was one of the top three cards...