Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Society will visit Harvard this afternoon and after a tour of the Yard and other points of interest around the University, the members will be entertained...
...organization was founded in England in 1911 by Cecil Sharp, a collector of folk songs and music of old folk dances, who started the group just before the dances died out in the country. Since then the interest in the Society has spread to the United States and organizations have been established as branches of the English one in many of the larger American cities. There are such groups in Boston, New York City, Cleveland, and Rochester...
...Francisco, an ovation given conductor Alfred Hertz had the flavor of farewell. Recently ("because of a declining interest on the part of the public") he announced this season as his last. Already Bruno Walter is mentioned as possible successor...
Besides the Fokker Aircraft interest General Motors owns a large block of stock in Bendix Aviation Corp., accessory manufacturers selling to the entire industry...
...General Motors owns a two-fifths and so practically controlling interest in Fokker Aircraft; 2) the other major owner of Fokker Aircraft is Western Air Express whose president Harris M. Hanshue (also Fokker's president) was in Manhattan last week arranging a 36-hour all-air transcontinental service with Graham Bethune Grosvenor, president of The Aviation Corp. The Aviation Corp., through its subsidiary Universal Aviation Corp. flies from Cleveland to Kansas City. Western Air Express flies from Kansas City to Los Angeles and thence to San Francisco. The project is to extend Universal passenger services eastward to Manhattan...