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...used to promise a $2,000,000 endowment to his alma mater, St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa. Last week the college revealed that Schwab had left it holding not an endowment but the bag, to the tune of $25,000 he borrowed in 1932 and never repaid...
...against the program is that the enthusiasm essential to its success would be too short-lived for it to be effective. Few can doubt that enthusiasm will be sufficient while the gripping and vastly important decision between war and peace is being made. A political union will have amply repaid all time and effort spent on it if it contributes toward a mature and thoughtful investigation of that decision, and even though it should vanish the day after the verdict has been given one way or the other, it will have fulfilled its purpose...
Creditor. In Brownsville, Ore., grizzled Farmer Matud Odehnal, who used to be a stonemason in Moravia, declared: "Hitler still owes me 20?." Years ago, he said, a ne'er-do-well Adolf Hitler borrowed a krone from him in the Pohrlitz courthouse, never repaid...
...Schafer needed a good quotation. That very day Mrs. Anna Weber, of Queens, was getting a judgment against him for $2,500 she said she had lent him and which he had never repaid. Next day a line of ladies began to march into the Attorney General's office with circumstantial stories of how "the money comes...
Henry Edward Miller, East St. Louis barber, borrowed $150 from the RFC for a new chair. The salesman skipped town with the $150, never delivered Miller's chair, but the loan was repaid with interest...