Word: lent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee turned up a juicy bit. Russia, it found, had refused to return, or pay for, the 95 ships lent to her during the war, despite repeated requests from the State Department. Roaring mad, the committee threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Marshall to explain...
...expert and the city's finances were in critical shape, the G.O.P. elected him to the state legislature, where he was able to win Cincinnati some financial aid. In 1938, though the party had picked another candidate, he ran for the Senate of the U.S. His wife lent him her hand. Breathlessly, she rushed around the state, bouncing into the wrong meetings, but confronting every situation with rumpled and exuberant aplomb. "Once they told me I could only talk on Abraham Lincoln. But when I got through you couldn't tell where Lincoln left off and Bob Taft...
...Bell Boys. Typical of the new contractors were Troy Preston Bell, 23, and his brother Farris Eugene, 31. Troy Bell, just back from service last year as a 6-17 waist gunner, had never before in his life borrowed more than $25. The Trust Co. lent...
...warning for the U. S. in his first expose, so he offers a message now for a new national environment. During the war he pointed to the menace of soditionists, working for Germany under the protection of democratic civil liberties. Today he shows that the same men who lent aid and comfort to the Nazis three years ago have embarked on another, more ominous, adventure. "Their most important objective is to capture postwar America's most precions prize: the mind of the veteran...
...Coady can tot up his successes. Now Nova Scotia has 12,500 members in 73 incorporated co-ops and about a dozen unincorporated ones, which do a $6,000,000-a-year business. It has 33,645 members banded together in credit unions, who have lent one another over $9,000,000. In the Maritimes as a whole 100,000 members have joined coops...