Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bold. First he dismissed the proposal (made both by Mrs. Roosevelt and by Alf M. Landon) that the U. S. give Britain cash outright. Proud Britons wouldn't welcome gifts, he said. Then he dismissed, as narrow-minded and banal, suggestions to change the Johnson & Neutrality Acts, then lend Britain money. After a brief backhand smash at people who think in traditional terms about finances, he outlined his plan: the U. S. will pay for all future British arms orders, will lease or mortgage war materials to Britain under a "gentlemen's agreement" whereby the British will repay...
Paramount has set this blistering badinage against a musicomedy background with a Jimmy Van Heusen-Johnny Burke score sung in a pleasing soprano by Strip-Teaser Mary Martin. In the plot, Mary is Fred's niece, Jack's sweetheart. Her efforts to achieve a reconciliation lend enough momentum to keep the story rolling to a climax where she and Jack wed, produce twins resembling the embattled comics...
...participate in the plans. The U. S. stayed out of the picture, but Ambassador Norman Armour and Foreign Minister Roca have recently had long heart-to-heart talks. Last week the U. S. lent Argentina $60,000,000. Before the bases are built, the U. S. will most probably lend technical assistance-as well as money...
...facilities to U. S. Army observers to watch American-made bombers perform in combat flight over the British Isles. If big bombers are to be sent to Britain this year, it did not seem likely that they would be withheld next year-even if the U. S. has to lend Britain the money to buy them...
...Bosworth ever manages to round into 1939 form, the backstroke division will be the strongest one on the squad. Bill Drucker, Dick Harris, and possibly Al Mathis will give him plenty of support in the 150-yard dorsal race. In addition, Bosworth could lend a helping hand in the free-style events...