Word: loans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alfonse Bartkus, ex-convict, charged with robbing a federally insured Cicero savings and loan association in 1953, was found "not guilty'' in federal court, found guilty three weeks later in state court, sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual criminal...
...recently had occasion to go to the Harvard loan office to inquire about the possibility and conditions of receiving a loan. The secretary informed me in a haughty manner that I (and presumably everyone else) should not attend Harvard if my financial resources are inadequate. I hope this attitude is not representative of the university as a whole...
...Capitol Hill from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week charged House Republican Leader Charles Halleck, determined to do or die for the Eisenhower Administration's request for an additional $225 million for the Development Loan Fund. The request had been killed by the powerful House Appropriations Committee, but Halleck visited with Ohio's Republican Representative Frank Bow, a bitter-end opponent of foreign aid, persuaded him to vote with the Administration. When Halleck took his case to Michigan Republican Alvin Bentley, who had rarely voted so much as a nickel for foreign aid, Bentley said: "You may be surprised...
Khrushchev delivered this "friendly" warning at a Moscow reception marking the signing with Iraq of a major new $138 million Soviet loan agreement. The agreement, pledging the Iraqis a twelve-year credit for building a steel mill and at least 14 factories, thrust the Soviet Union into Britain's old place at the center of oil-rich Iraq's economic development. The first 80 Soviet technicians, said Iraq's Communist-lining Economics Minister Ibrahim Kubba. would arrive within a month...
...only by the businessman's imagination. Last month Amarillo's First National Bank wheeled out a car credit card to buck the big auto financing agencies. The holder presents the card in the auto showroom to prove that he has the bank's approval for a loan, like a cash buyer can drive out in a new car within minutes...