Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possessively proud of their London Lord Mayor, Vancouverites reluctantly granted Toronto's request for a loan of him next month. But when Seattle in the U. S. asked for the London Lord Mayor, the Vancouver Sim shrieked: "No, no, a thousand times no! The nerve of them! The colossal gall! The effrontery of it. Seattle actually wants Vancouver to send the Lord Mayor of London down there ... so they can have a look at him without coming up to Vancouver...
...French business was the prompt appointment by the Government to the new board of Regents of goateed, rabble-rousing Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux, who last week flew to Spain's "Red" Government Capital of Madrid. To Paris businessmen this suggested that M. Jouhaux had gone to arrange a loan by the Bank of France to Spanish foes of Capitalism...
Climax of Ben's life occurs when he falls in love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions...
...years ago Promoter Clarke pledged his precious Pusco shares for a measly $2,000,000 loan from the old Dawes bank in Chicago. He never saw them again. In the process of liquidating the notorious $90,000,000 Dawes loan, they ended up in Jesse Jones...
...group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds dropped to 80. In 1931 Bank of America National Association, into which the East River Bank had grown, was absorbed by Manhattan's National City Bank. Attilio went back to Brother Amadeo's potent Bank of America N.T. & S.A. as director...