Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Briefly, the Dewey record goes like this. He struck from the first at the loan shark racket, and by convicting twenty-one usurers put a million-dollar a week business out of commission. Then, in rapid time, the system of organized vice controlled by 'Lucky' Luciano felt the knife, and after extraditing Luciano from Hot Springs, Arkansas, where that worthy went to hide out, Dewey convicted him for a prison stretch of thirty-five to fifty years. Then the restaurant trade, which had been victimized by a series of fake labor unions and "protective associations" to the tune of millions...
...last week an atmosphere of almost World War tenseness, anguish and sacrifice was spreading through China and Japan. The "Liberty Loan'^of $150,000,000 asked by the Nanking Government was well on its way over the top last week as the first official Chinese announcement said, $71.250,000 had already been subscribed. Tokyo was warming up for "Nationalspirit Mobilization Week" during which radio appeals and mass meetings all over Japan must soon sell $57,660,000 worth of 3½% "China Incident Bonds" redeemable in eleven years...
Japanese editors last week taunted that wealthy Chinese have been slack in buying Liberty Bonds, caused tortoise-spectacled Chinese Loan Chairman T. V. Soong to retort: "The sale of our bonds is in pleasing contrast to the situation in Japan where 'China Incident' Bonds are being forced down the throats of bankers whose portfolios are already overladen with Government bonds, thus creating a 'Red Ink Bonds Problem' and accelerating the collapse of Japan's economic currency structure." He added that in Shanghai alone $3,000,000 had been subscribed by wealthy Chinese in blocs...
...efforts by the three lusty young men from the West-Benton, Curry and Wood-by whom contemporary U. S. painting is best known to the man in the street. Fresh examples of surrealism were not in evidence, the familiar ones being stock-in-trade with Manhattan dealers or on loan exhibitions in the eager Midwest. But among many pictures by young artists, critics recognized a few of well-founded ability and vivid promise...
Unfortunately he had a little difficulty understanding History 1's mentor, Professor Merriman. For the Yardling appeared at the Phillips Brooks House loan library and gave the attendant a sheet of paper, on which, legibly enough, was inscribed: "Silipus at Bernstein Hall...