Word: loans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since junketing Congressmen began making side trips to Spain last autumn, the news from Madrid has sounded as though they had made their pilgrimages across the Pyrenees just to give Dictator Francisco Franco a kindly pat on the back. Most spoke enthusiastically both of a big U.S. loan to the Spaniards and of full U.S. recognition of Franco's Fascist government. But last week three traveling members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee bluntly suggested that the U.S. should not be judged exclusively by the sweet talk of its traveling politicos...
...number of books, periodicals, and pamphlets belonging to the Center or housed there on permanent loan is well over 3,500. These holdings, plus the 700-odd records kept in the Center's recording-studio, in over 90 per cent of the cases represent gifts to the Center from friends of its program: professors, student organizations, publishing houses in this country and abroad, university presses, national and international institutions whose programs stress the furtherance of intellectual cooperation, alumni, and other persons who, having visited the Center, and became interested in its work, seek through donations to increase its facilities. Berrien...
...after his father died) he set out for the oil-rich town of Cisco, Texas, looking for bigger game. Instead of a bank, Hilton bought the shaky old Mobley Hotel with $5,000 of his own money, $15,000 from friends and a $20,000 bank loan...
...fabulous deal that Dallas still recalls with wonder. He started by persuading George Loudermilk, an ex-undertaker and a large landholder, to give him a 99-year lease on some Dallas property he owned. Then he used the leased land as collateral for a $500,000 bank loan. Hilton put up $100,000 of his own money, and raised $200,000 from friends. He needed another $150,000, and he borrowed it from the contractor who was to build the hotel. Then he ran out of money and his troubles began. When a secretary mistakenly mailed a $50,000 check...
Solicitors also took a poll last night asking students why they gave to the charities they had indicated. One student said he gave to the Council because some time he might "need a loan" from them. Another said it was "social compulsion" and a third said he wanted to "be a philanthropist...