Word: loans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speakers Committee has charge of distributing volunteer speakers on various matters of interest. The Library Committee has charge of the special loan books. With its activities concentrated in the summer for the most part, the Missions Committee has charge of sending students to Labrador. Then there are also the Handbook Committee and the Information Committee, always ready to answer any questions about the University and about the surrounding towns
...remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms. It is sufficient reason for the immediate lifting of the arms embargo and a willingness to send the Allies all the munitions and raw materials which they can purchase. All this, of course, within the limits of cash and carry, the loan embargo, and control of American citizens or shipping...
...trying to be forehanded," Henry Morgenthau explained, as he made an announcement that wakened memories of 1917: the appointment of the first dollar-a-year-men of World War II. They were three bankers: able, affable Tom K. Smith, 57, of St. Louis, a distinguished veteran of the Liberty Loan campaigns in 1917-19, who in 1939 is to be "a sort of coordinator of all banking problems for the Treasury"; Warren Randolph Burgess, 50, of Manhattan's National City Bank, a military statistician during World War I, recalled to duty last week as an expert on Government financing...
...opportunity presented itself, Mr. Rose went off to town. Midway across Wyoming Mr. Rose, finding himself short of funds, organized a little side-trip into Yellowstone Park. For this he collected $4,000 extra. In Portland, Ore., broke again, he asked families back home for a "loan" of $50. Some parents anted up, others said it was the next thing to kidnapping. To molify his charges, who were growing testy, Mr. Rose then trucked them down the coast to Hollywood, presented each girl with a corsage, engaged tables for a Cocoanut Grove dinner dance. His profit from this little party...
...Good Shepherd-was ready to deal with the problems of St. Luke's unemployed parishioners. He told them to go into business for themselves. That first group raised $11,000 and within a few months more Rector Colony, their president, had wangled a $15,000 RFC loan. A small vacant mill was bought, 13 ancient knitting machines were put in shape and Colony Hosiery went into production. At first, without working capital to buy silk, Colony Hosiery took orders only on commission. After eight months in business it now buys its own silk, has advance orders for two years...