Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frederick, Mo. Reno S. Harp, Supreme Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, recovering from pneumonia, felt better when he was able to announce that President Roosevelt had signed an application to become a Knight of Pythias. The Pythians are trying to get Home Owners Loan Corp. or RFC to aid them in refinancing mortgages on their lodges throughout...
...certificate, he will in the course of time receive $950 in baby bonds and a check for $40. If, like most of his fellows, he has already borrowed 50% ($495) on his bonus, that sum will be deducted from his $990. If he has paid interest on his loan, he will get $450 in bonds and a $45 check. If, again like most of his fellows, he has paid no interest, that charge as far back as Oct. 1, 1931 will be forgiven and forgotten. If his loan dates from July 1, 1931, he will owe interest for three months...
...lectures during the next semester. And I did also see a note from Professor Haring announcing that Dunster House will have another art exhibition early in February, this time of the paintings of Mr. Martin Mower. And I was exceedingly pleased to learn that other Houses are planning similar loan exhibitions of well known painters. Yet I do earnestly hope that similarity of activities among the Houses will not be encouraged: For, to reinterpret the old proverb, birds of a feather, really never get anyplace...
Japanese delegates to the London Naval Conference last week walked reverently with the U. S., British, French and Italian delegates around the great international loan exhibit of Chinese Art at Burlington House (TIME, Dec. 9). The soul of even the most bellicose Japanese is at peace in awe and wonder before marvels of Chinese Art. To the white delegates, most of whom did not escape inner qualms similar to an inferiority complex in Burlington House, sturdy little Japanese Chief Delegate Admiral Osamu Nagano explained exquisite niceties with elegance and charm...
...need for it seemed to diminish. Mrs. Whitney established her Museum of American Art. Stodgy Director Edward Robinson of the Metropolitan died, to be succeeded by the more liberal Herbert E. Winlock. Still the Museum of Modern Art grew and prospered, gained much prestige and more publicity with its loan exhibitions of almost everything from Henri Matisse to modern kitchen utensils. But it still owned no important pictures. In 1931 Miss Bliss died, leaving the bulk of the pictures she had been buying since the Armory Show to the Museum on condition other members raise an endowment fund...