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...because of the grasping, selfish interests ever ready to use such occasions for their own and their country's aggrandizement. . . . ." With regard to American loans to the associated powers, he wrote to the President in August, 1917, that "as long as we have money to lend, those wishing to borrow will be agreeable, but when the bottom of the barrel is reached, it may be a different story...
Foreign Loans. Various German organizations are negotiating to borrow $100,000,000 in the U. S.; Greece wants $75,000,000; Hungary $5,000,000 (for its Reformed and Lutheran churches). President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank (Manhattan), last week told German bankers that $150,000,000 of foreign bonds offered in New York have remained unsold. That condition will doubtless force new foreign borrowers to offer high rates of interest (7% or more) for new loans...
Luckee Girl. Having borrowed their title from a well-known article of feminine apparel and the refrain of their best song ("Come On Let's Make Whoopee") from the works of a well-known drama critic (Walter Winchell, who, on the ground of an antique enmity, was denied entrance to the premiere), the Brothers Shubert were content to borrow the rest of their second musical production of the week from a thousand previous productions of the same kind. The lucky girl is a midinette who, after an innocent cohabitation with the hero in the environs of Montparnasse, almost loses...
...have not happened to find myself in such a neighborhood recently "At his age the noble lord ought not to borrow from the ebullitions of the younger peers...
Tardiness obliged Midshipman Larry Cardwell to borrow and wear his neighbor's clothes one day in 1926 at the U. S. Naval Academy. He was dismissed. Tardiness by Congress in passing a bill to reinstate Midshipman Cardwell, or tardiness by President Coolidge in signing the bill, would have left Midshipman Cardwell in disgrace. But Congress acted in time and so, last week, with six hours to spare, did President Coolidge. The bill set forth that Midshipman Cardwell, an honest youth, had simply been pressed for time. His good name stands clear...