Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have one convention speech to give out. They preferred to horde them for printing in their own professional magazine during the coming months, when public interest in their work will be diffuse and weak...
...Schulte-United 5? to $1 Stores was forced to borrow money at 10% by offering stockholders 7% bonds at 70. Instead of having a bank underwrite the issue, it was done by Mr. Schulte himself. Also last week it was announced Schulte Associate George J. Whelan had sold his interest in the 5? to $1 stores. While at the height of the 1928 Schulte boom it was predicted the stores would have soon 1,000 or 3,000 units, there were last week less than...
Following the precedent of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick who borrowed $11,000,000 by issuing notes against stocks held in trust (TIME, July 1), last week Mrs. Matilda R. Wilson, widow of Motor-maker John F. Dodge, offered through her bankers $3,000,000 worth of certificates at 6% interest in a collateral trust of municipal bonds...
...present system of athletic training at West Point is so different from that of most colleges that a brief description of it might be of interest to Harvard men. Twenty-five years ago no general participation in athletics, as distinguished from the course in calisthenics, gymnastics, fencing, boxing, wresting and riding required of all cadets, was necessary. Participation in the major sports as well as in tennis; golf, polo, etc., was optional and no instruction was provided for those who took up tennis or golf, which, incidentally, could be played only on Wednesday or Saturday afternoons...
...picture in greater detail than he has formerly been able to enjoy. In thus providing the Stadium with one of the best press sections in the country the Athletic Association has made an investment upon which large dividends in terms of accurate and timely news and the attendant public interest should be realized...