Word: debts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into a legend of frugality by his friends. His miserly appearance, his proclivity for backing the athletic teams of his Alma Mater, the State University, with nickel bets, have helped win him the title of "Coolidge of the West." Landon backers noisily point out that Kansas has no State debt. Soft-pedaled is the fact that many a Kansan would have gone hungry in the past two years without the Federal Government's donation of $100,000,000 in relief funds (equal to the State's annual income...
Having twice been rebuffed on a suggestion that the bankers make their loans payable at some definite date five or ten years in the future, Mr. Jones advanced another solution last summer. To replace the $90,000,000 of short-term debt, he urged that Mr. Vanderbilt issue $90,000,000 of bonds paying 4% interest. Mr. Jones was willing to buy $45,000.000 of those bonds, which would cancel Central's debt toRFC and leave$18,000,000 to apply on Mr. Vanderbilt's debts to the bankers...
...explanation of the letter-that a friend of Football Captain Haley's father who owed Haley Sr. money had offered to pay the debt by helping Bob Haley through Harvard, then mistakenly sought to enlist other Harvard graduates in his generous enterprise -cleared Football Captain Haley of blame but made him no less subject to the rules. Last week, he regretfully resigned. Under a Groton graduate named Shaun Kelly, elected to replace him, his onetime teammates, smartly drilled by Dick Harlow, first non-graduate football coach in Harvard history, made short work of Springfield College...
...eminence almost as unhappy as his isolation had been. After his marriage in 1925, the responsibilities of a family wore on him heavily, since even at the height of his fame he could earn only $1,500 a year. With only $76 in his possession, $4.000 in debt and with a wife and two children to care for, he grew increasingly melancholy, developed delusions, sometimes heard voices plotting his death. He believed that the Jews were responsible for his failures, grew increasingly violent as he denounced his young wife as a scarlet woman. On Dec. 5, 1931, in Springfield...
...life. His father's training in mathematics early gave him exact habits of mind; a badly-set broken arm that impaired his physical development provided another impetus to study. Attending Amherst on borrowed funds, putting himself through Columbia Law School by tutoring and going more deeply into debt, he struggled to get the maximum value from an education that cost him so much. As an energetic law clerk, his salary was increased from $720 a year in 1900 to $3,125 in 1903, and he was soon taken into his firm. With his tastes inclining him toward an academic...