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Subscriber Hill does rank injustice to Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock and many another white whose sense of honesty prompted him to repay relief monev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

Will you do me a great favor and feed my cat a raw hamburger on Saturday and Sunday? I have been called away for the weekend, and I will repay you on my return Monday. Keep the bloody little animal in the bathroom, so that there will be no unfortunate debris elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...reminiacent need five minutes in the files will repay dusty fingers by evidence of those who worked before. True, all have not become book-of-the month-club writers or powerful publishers, indeed some have strayed so far as the White House, an older president, or the daily column of America's most quoted political prophet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Offers Outlet to Harvard Students With Literary Ambitions | 10/8/1935 | See Source »

...buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt water into the air. The State now bottles Saratoga waters, sells 24-pint cases for $4 each, expects to sell 400,000 cases a year and with the profits quickly repay the $3,200,000 R.F.C. loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Saratoga Spa | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

...bankers were privileged to borrow from their own banks all that their own banks saw fit to lend. On that date the Banking Act of 1933 went into effect. One of its provisions prohibited bankers from borrowing from their own banks. Another required them to repay all such intramural loans by June 16, 1935. As that date approached last week many a borrowing banker was in a cold sweat. Loans outstanding totaled nearly $90,000,000. Penalty for failure to pay was fixed by the Banking Act at one year in jail, $5,000 fine. Bankers dispatched telegrams to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bankers' Grace | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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