Word: owing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madison Square Garden in 1924 and offer himself as a Democratic candidate for the Senate?* Solemnly Son- in-Law McAdoo announced: "A large number of men and women of standing and character have been urging me to enter the race. I have reached no conclusion but I feel I owe it to them to give the matter thoughtful consideration...
Through its district banks the Farm Loan Board had outstanding advances of $1,171,000,000 to 408,000 rural borrowers on Nov. 30. About 23½% of these debtors, owing $275,450,000, were delinquent in their payments?11½% over 90 days, 12% under 90 days. Last year delinquencies ran about 10%. That about three out of four farmers had kept up their Farm Loan payments Commissioner Bestor thought was "an excellent showing under the circumstances." To rebut the notion that the Farm Loan Board was a harsh moneylender, he declared that only 3,848 loans ?less than...
...monthly meeting of the administrative committee of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America went Rev. Arva Brush Keeler, director of the department of Buildings & property of the Presbyterian Board of National Missions. Director Keeler told the committee that Protestant churches in the U. S. owe some $135.000,000. Church bonds amounting to $6,000,000 or more have been defaulted by twelve denominations alone. Church credit, said le, is none too good; church building projects are being held up by Depression. Director Keeler suggested a remedy: let a small group of rich men establish a fund...
...your editor or one of your representatives would come to this city and take a room at my hotel, they would at least say to the people of this country that your statement is untrue and that someone connected with your magazine has been misled. I feel sure you owe this to myself and to the owners of the same. At the end of this unwarranted and noisome litigation now pending in the U. S. court, you may rest assured, without thought of gain, that I will have added and contributed in a small way to the defense...
...swelled, his head throbbed. Obviously there was no gratitude in this world, no sense of loyalty. His own brother, slack-chinned Prince Nicholas (the one member of the royal family who stuck by Carol in all his marital difficulties, the one of whom he has frequently said "I owe the throne to him"), had so far forgotten himself to marry a commoner! In bed with tonsilitis & bronchitis King Carol hoarsely croaked: "It's an outrage to the Hohenzollern Dynasty...