Word: borrowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housing. $300,000.000 plus authority for USHA to borrow on its bonds...
...handlers, with slums lying close to luxurious red-brick houses, with parking spaces and no-parking places, with rearing trucks at night and clattering milk cans inevitable in the morning--all these things don't exist in that wonderful country where men are men and won't borrow from the government, where the country is green and the roads bad, where girls giggle in the streets and drug stores are individually owned, where the milk tastes like the top of the bottle and beer is brewed strong...
...period Mr. Lamont has worked for J. P. Morgan & Co.) why he had told nobody about it when he learned last November that Broker Richard Whitney was not only insolvent but also guilty of using customers' funds illegally. When his partner, George Whitney, came to him to borrow $1,082,000 to help his brother Dick "out of a jam," explained Mr. Lamont. "I moved as my heart dictated." It did not occur to him that it was in any way his responsibility to inform the Exchange or anybody else-even though both J. P. Morgan...
...know that George Earle has been in the sugar business all his life. We who are his friends know that he plays the sugar market. What if he was caught in a jam and his brokers called for more margin? ... It is commendable that he ... had to borrow. . . . His Republican predecessors . . . would not have had to borrow...
...properties recently expropriated by the Mexican Government. President Roosevelt has made clear that under his good neighbor policy Mexico need not pay anything like as much as $400,000,000 in compensation, but the British Government take a much sterner view, and Mexico needs to borrow heavily to finance Government operation of her oil lands. Best argument to use on prospective lenders is evidence of a desire to pay and thus last week Señora Cárdenas and other politicos' wives donated table silver and trinkets (see cut). Wealthy Mexicans took almost no part, since they hate...