Word: lent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While some people loudly cried for wage & price controls, the Senate-House watchdog defense committee last week lent itself to an all-out attempt to sabotage credit controls, the only existing brake the U.S. has had against inflation...
...Home Owners' Loan Corp. (1933-48); of pneumonia; in Washington, D.C. A onetime (1909-10) vice president of the Associated Press and editor (1903-10) of the Boston Traveler, New Hampshire-born John Fahey was a co-founder of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, between 1933 and 1936 lent $3,093,451,321 to 1,017,821 householders (one-fifth of the period's mortgage loans), ended HOLC up in the black...
...Secretaries of State." The President was apt to stick by him the more he was attacked. Acheson's peril, however, lay not so much with critics of his foreign policy, as with its friends, who feared that his unpopularity jeopardized the policy. It was their outspoken worrying that lent credence to reports that within a month or two Acheson would quit. Most scuttlebutt simply had him returning to private law practice, but elaborate guessing said that he might step up to the Supreme Court and be replaced by Chief Justice Fred Vinson...
...lack of a codification of ideals and reality has lent an air of abstraction to the American way of life, Wilder stated. Home is no more than a state of mind to the average American, who is always on the move. "Very un-European," he commented...
Professors supporting Republican candidate Coolidge have been active, but they have not been so publicly vociferous. Robert Amory, Jr. '36, professor of Law, and Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, have written letters and lent their names on behalf of certain Republican policies...