Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each short-term mortgage, 60% of each long-term one. Such rediscount loans would be limited to 25% and 30% of the "sound appraisal" of each home property covered. The H. L. D. B. would make no original mortgage loans to individual home-seekers, nor would it touch commercial property or apartment houses. For additional working capital each H. L. D. B. would be authorized to issue bonds, secured by the rediscounted mortgages it held, at a 12-to-1 ratio on its capital stock, or $1,800,000,000 for the whole H. L. D. B. system. Banks could...
...Japan was in closest diplomatic touch with U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, several times rumored last week to be on the point of negotiating a compromise with Ambassador Debuchi in Washington, though this did not receive official confirmation. The compromise was understood to be on "realistic lines," taking into consideration that anarchy would follow abrupt withdrawal of Japanese troops from Manchuria, yet striving to uphold China's more flagrantly violated rights; the compromise to lead to direct negotiations between China and Japan...
Yesterday afternoon Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity defeated kappa Sigma by a score of 6-0 to win the inter-fraternity touch football championship for the fourth consecutive year. The touchdown was scored by Bloom as a result of a lateral and forward pass which enabled the Sigma Alpha Mu players to break through a strong Kappa Sigma defense. The winners have accepted the challenge of the Brown University touch football team for a to decide the New England championship...
...meetings are held, is at work on a system for furthering the entertainment of foreign students in the House by present House residents. In each House a committee of five men is to be named, the five men of this committee to put the residents of the House in touch with any of the nationalities that they might wish to meet of entertain...
Sigma Alpha Mu and Kappa Sigma fraternities, winners of the touch football tournaments in their respective leagues, will meet today on Soldiers Field to decide the interfraternity championship. A challenge has been issued to the winning team by the fraternity champions at Brown...