Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four exhibits are continuing at the Fogg Art Museum throughout this week. A loan exhibition of winetasers cups, fashioned of French silver, are on display through the courtesy of Mrs. A. T. Cabot. There is also an exhibition of contemporary American art, containing work of the members of the Whitney Studio Club. Besides the exhibition of Maya Art, with pieces taken from the Peabody Museum...
...Chicago had a pretty girl, an automobile, a dozen watches and diamond rings. He drove into a gasoline station, said to the attendant: "Listen, sport, I'm in a jam. I've got to take my girl to a party and I'm broke. Can you loan me 25 bucks on this here watch?" The attendant obliged Mr. Davidson, who then went to other gasoline stations to dispose of his watches and rings. Mr. Davidson was no philanthropist. His watches were tin, his diamond rings glass. At the tenth station he was arrested...
...opening show, the Pennsylvania Museum exhibited several loan collections of an interesting but not startling nature. It will require many years before the magnificent edifice, built upon Greek lines out of polychromatic stones, can secure paintings which justify either its exterior or the panegyrics lavished upon it by onetime Senator Pepper and Philadelphian news-sheets...
...Fascist financial magazine, Finanza (Rome), authoritatively proposed, last fortnight, that the State should establish a Marriage Bank. Purpose: to loan 10,000 lire ($527) to each laboring bachelor of good standing who may seek such a sum in order to marry, set up housekeeping, beget. Finanza proposed that repayment of the loan be made "automatically by a monthly levy on the husband's wages...
...amount of $600,006, pointed out that in 1927 the three newspapers earned $121,978 or 3.38 times the annual interest requirement of the new bond issue. A ratio of 3.38 between earnings and interest charges would once have been thought barely adequate to induce people to loan money to a manufacturing concern which had great brick & mortar assets. That such a ratio was deemed sufficient to get money for newspapers indicated that bankers now rate the pen as no less mighty than the brick...