Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more interest than his Cuban mission for low-duty sugar men, the committee found his statement of clients and fees. His income, he said was close to $150,000 per year, to which the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Co. contributed $25,000, the Burlington and Northern Pacific Railroads $20,000, the Baltimore & Ohio $10,000, United Fruit Co. $15,000 (to prevent a tariff on bananas), the Chesapeake & Ohio and Hocking Valley $12,000, the Cuban Embassy...
Progression. The investigation moved forward again when Gordon Sohn Rentschler, president of Manhattan's National City Bank, appeared to tell of his company's interest in Cuban sugar production and a low sugar duty. His story was forthright: National City had loaned large sums to Cuban planters who had been caught in the 1920-21 sugar deflation. National City had formed General Sugars, Inc., to take and operate over 3,250,000 acres, a $30,000,000 investment. To the United States Sugar Association's low-duty lobby fund, Mr. Rentschler's bank had contributed $10,000, had spent...
...Hart, Schaffner & Marx prize for an undergraduate economic essay, founded in 1903, was won last week by Jean Trepp, Wellesley, 1929. Subject: "Trade Union Interest in Production...
...separate room, it provides an excellent reference reading library for students who wish to withdraw from the rush of their everyday obligations to read comfortably and leisurely in the history of those subjects which certainly have lost none of their importance since the days when they engaged the interest of Senator Aldrich...
Thunder in the Air. The ghost of a British soldier returns after ten years to twist the hearts of his parents and one-time fiancee. This spectral drama by Robins Millar, Glasgow journalist, may interest adherents of spiritualism; earthier critics may yawn...