Word: loans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being held this week. The following places received boxes of clothing: Industrial Aid Society, Family Welfare Society, Cambridge Welfare Union, and Cushing Academy. Besides the 1522 articles of clothing collected, there were 440 books and two tons of magazines. About 90 text books were placed in the loan library, and 150 were sent to the American Merchant Marine. Besides this, 200 obsolete editions from the Text Book Loan Library were sent to the same organization...
...abolished. After a mild debate, in which invidious comparisons were made between Home and Dominion soldiers, the House voted "No" by 320 to 156 votes. ¶Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill was asked why he had permitted the Government's de- cision to issue a new conversion loan of $150,000,000 to leak into the City. Mr. Churchill cleared himself by stating that a permanent and non-partisan Treasury official had investigated the leak, found nothing. The House was mollified. ¶A Conservative, name omitted in cable despatches, asked Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain if any attempt...
...Previous Governments had two budgets: one for ordinary expenditures which balanced; one for reconstruction and loan expenses, which was technically charged to expected receipts for German reparations...
Tobacco's loan to letters...
...charities, such as the Family Welfare Society of Boston, the Cambridge Welfare Union, the Industrial Aid Society of Boston, and the Salvation Army. The books and magazines will be given, as usual, to the Merchant Marine, except for textbooks, which will be placed in the Phillips Brooks House Textbook Loan Library...