Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proper spelling, of course, is URUGUAY, and the mistake is quite probably typographical. However, should the good Uruguayans see it, now that their interest is focused more than ever upon the United States because of Mr. Hoover's recent visit, they would certainly not feel complimented...
...England was a man called Gladstone and one called Manning and one called Newman. And in England, at Oxford, was a movement which Pius IX had watched with great interest. For the Oxford movement eventually made both Manning and Newman Catholics and Manning became an Archbishop and both became Cardinals...
...citizen thinks of expressing a package or trunk, he may well be excused for thinking of Adams Express or American Express. Yet the arrival of a trunk at either the Adams offices (61 Broadway) or the American offices (65 Broadway) would probably be greeted with surprise rather than with interest. For both Adams and American are now holding companies. The actual operating express company is American Railway Express. It is American Railway Express whose functions the new Railway Express will take over on March...
...however, purchasers fail to meet their weekly payments, their interest in their diamond "lapses." and when "lapsation" takes place the money previously paid in becomes profit for the Standard Diamond Co. Mr. Johnston began to worry about what would happen to the interest payments if the "lapsations" began to fall off. Perturbed, he called the District Attorney's office and the Better Business Commission. It was at this point that Mr. Stillings reappeared, ornamented his colleague's desk...
...receive a diamond worth $175. If they pay $2 a week for 100 weeks they get two diamonds, worth $350. The company reserves the right to make a cash settlement at any time after eleven installments have been paid, this settlement to consist of a refund with the generous interest of 37-3%. This repayment-with-interest appears to have overshadowed the jewelry portion of the business. Hundreds of dollar-a-week investors have had their partial payments refunded at interest...