Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giannini's Bank of Italy in that remodeled San Francisco saloon [TIME, April 15] has one mistake. The assistant cashier, Armando Pedrini, was not the saloon's bartender. Armando Pedrini, graduate of the Royal Technical Institute of Bologna, was hired away from the Columbus Savings & Loan Society where he was a teller. Later, after he had hit the top in A. P.'s organization (president of National Bankitaly Co., Bankitaly Co. America, Corp. of America), he joined up with the Elisha Walker group which tried to take over Transamerica in 1931. By the time the plan...
...state they call me the big, dumb Swede!" quipped lumbering Ed Johnson. His colleagues in the Senate were not much surprised to hear this; they had known Colorado's Big Ed for nine years. Nevertheless, they suffered him to delay passage of the $3.75 billion British loan for two hours while he groped around in parliamentary irrelevancies...
Then came the amendments. Indiana's Homer Capehart wanted the loan reduced to $1.5 billion. California's William F. Knowland tried to bar the loan until U.S. production had reached prewar levels and the budget showed a surplus. Vermont's George Aiken suggested another: wipe out the British Empire preference system...
...desk was piled high with papers and books. On one side stood a glass of water and a glass of milk. Scattered around him were proposed amendments, among them one to spend the proposed loan money to give everybody in the U.S. a urinalysis test.* For 3? hours he maundered and rambled, talking about wheat, food, reading Winston Churchill's biography from the International...
...current lottery-loan is to support the five-year plan and to "strengthen the military and economic might of the nation." One item in the plan: atomic development...