Word: repaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon begins to delve into the vast resources of the University. Not only does he come into close contact with the different departments scattered throughout Cambridge, but in the natural course of his search for news he makes connections with men, both prominent and otherwise, which often in themselves repay the effort of eight weeks' solid work. Nor are these acquaintanceships confined to the University, as all the News candidates are urged to obtain interviews from leading figures throughout the country. The candidate learns how to express himself concisely and intelligently when seeking news and eventually how to order...
...also justify itself on a broad social scale. The endowment for institutions of higher education in this country runs into billions; the institutions supported by the public drain large sums from the state treasuries. If this vast expenditure is wise--and we believe it is--the education institutions must repay society in the only way they can: by turning out educated men, capable of taking their place as leaders in the life of that society...
...Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench to run for President as a Republican. In 1930 President Hoover, anxious to repay his political debt to the South for its vote in 1928, appointed John Johnston Parker, a North Carolina Republican, to the Supreme Court only to have the Senate reject him (TIME, May 19, 1930 et ante). No less sainted a Republican than the late great Theodore Roosevelt (fifth cousin) believed that...
Foreign investors who have kept on hoping that Germany will repay at least her "private debts" ($1,000,000,000) in money of some sort, were rudely shaken when a blunt electioneering speech was barked by Chancellor Franz von Papen last week to plump, approving Westphalian industrialists at Paderborn...
Last March the Missouri Pacific, an-other Van Sweringen road, was loaned $12,300,000 bv R. F. C. Half the funds went to repay J. P. Morgan & Co. half of a note they held. This deal excited hot words in Congress (TIME, April 11). Last week the loan fell due, was renewed for a year...