Word: pawning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free press for imparting news affecting the industry," and asserted that "proper publicity" would "create a more favorable public opinion of the pawnbrokers' business." Pages of news followed about pawnbrokers' ordinances in various cities, including Berlin, where The Pawnbrokers' Journal correspondent wrote: "Pawn shops, the poor man's banks, are soon to feel the Nazi big stick. . . . Their interest rates, often running as high as 30%, are to be trimmed to a flat 6% annual rate. ..." Better news came from Los Angeles, where a correspondent reported that the State Supreme Court of California had ruled that...
Knowing nothing at all about moving picture cameras, still I accept your offer." Surprise ending of "A Fair Exchange" is that after a hard day's finagling, Marcus' final trade brings him a pawn ticket which proves to be for the very same stone he started out with...
...which should convince any thinking voter to "try try again" with the Republican ticket. For four long years, the Empire State's capital has been infested with a complete, though small-scale New Deal government. Lehman has made of the most powerful state in the union a mere pawn in the hands of his eccentric leader in Washington...
Tall, thin Candidate Russell harped on the 396,000,000 Federal dollars which have rolled into Georgia, assailed his opponent as a dictator who ruled the State by militia, described him as a pawn of Yankee capitalists plotting to break up the Democratic Party. Russell played for all it was worth the revelation before the Senate lobby investigating committee that John J. Raskob and Pierre S. du Pont had paid $5,000 each to finance Governor Talmadge's convention of anti-Roosevelt "Goober Democrats" at Macon last winter (TIME, April 27). "Sure, I helped raise the taxes," cried...
Jesse Jones rejected this plan last week in what even for that forthright Texan was blunt language. Banker Roosevelt's plan, he said, would make the road "a pawn, subject to abuses and manipulations that should not be tolerated...