WAR FIELD, DAVID

(1866), an American actor, born at San Francisco, Cal. He was educated in public schools. He made his first appearance in 1889 at the Wigwam Theatre, San Francisco, then went to New York where until 1900 he played in the Casino Theatre and the Weber and Field’s Music Hail. He was then starred by David Belasco in The Auctioneer (1900-3), in The Music Master (1903-7), then for many seasons in A Grand Army Man, and again in The Music Master (1917-18). (1861), an American college president, born at Lexington, Ky., son of William and Mary Cabell Breckinridge War field. He was educated at Princeton and Columbia and at the University of Oxford, England. He practiced law at Lexington, Ky. from 1886-8, was prof. of history and president of Miami University, 1888-91, same of Lafayette College from 1891-1914, and after 1915 was president of Wilson College, Chambers burg, Pa. Author: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, An Historical Study, 1887; At the Evening Hour, 1898 and Memoir of Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, @ government organization created in 1918, primarily as an agency to i ue notes to banks making loans to enterprises deemed e ential to the prosecution of the war or directly to firms engaged in war work. The i ue of suck notes was limited to $3,000,000,000 In its early operations the. corp or at i or lent some $108,000,000 chiefly to firms direct, underwrote other loans!d without itself furnishing any funds, and lent the railroads $70,000,000. In 1919 its power was extended to the financing of foreign trade, Oongre authorizing this diversion of its activities from war to peace channels in the belief that in the proce of reconstruction Europe needed American products but could not pay cash for them. Congre gave the corporation $500,000,000 for this purpose, and from March 3, 1919, to May 20, 1920, $45,500,000 was advanced to finance exports. At the latter date the government suspended the corporation’s operations on the ground of the need of economy in the conduct of ‘federal finances. Hostile to the Wilson administration, and swayed by the demands of farmers, cotton planters and exporters for government aid in foreign trade, congre pa ed a measure reviving the corporation. The President vetoed the resolution, but in January, 1921 Congre overrode the veto and the War Finance Corporation came to life again until July 1, 1923, to provide loans to banks which financed exporters of domestic - products who could not get such credits through ordinary financial channels. Through the government corporation surplus American products were sold to Europe on credit, the government paying the home producers and trusting Europe to meet its obligations later.