Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created the Congo Free State, fought with natives and slavers, built railroads, finally (1908) made the Congo a Belgian colony as his gift to the Belgian people. In 1909 Leopold began an attempt to interest British capital in the Congo, sent one Dr. Max Horn to Lord Leverhulme. Dr. Horn pointed out that many a fine waving palm tree grew in the Congo, that many a cake of Sunlight could be made from Congo oils. While negotiations were in progress. King Leopold died (December...
Unlike that more ebullient, cosmopolitan journalist, William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, Publisher-Senator Capper confines his interest to Kansas. Last week he editorialized: "I pledge for myself and The Capital at least another half-century's wholehearted devotion to the task of making Topeka a greater and better city; Kansas a more prosperous and happier State...
Racial Equalities. Although the U. S. immigration furor over better racial stocks has subsided, interest in racial superiorities continues. National Research Council's Otto Klineberg found slight differences in the intelligence ratings of German, French and Italian children (Nordics, Alpines, Mediterraneans). City children of the three types were smarter than the corresponding country children. Nor did Vanderbilt University's Lyle Hicks Lanier find sharp differences between Negro and white children, or New Zealand's I. L. G. Suther- land between primitive (Maori) and civilized adults...
...Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her home schuppen (hangar). "Speaking frankly," said Dr. Hugo Eckener (in Manhattan last week), "the Graf Zeppelin's voyage around the world was to demonstrate the expediency of her mode of travel, to intensify public interest and to get financial support for the construction of the ideal Zeppelin which we know how to build." The trip served its purpose. It led last week to banker negotiations to provide Dr. Eckener with money for the construction of four more Zeppelins...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was thus publicized in a Japanese newspaper which reached the U. S. last week as a merchandise wrapper: "Mr. Alfred E. Smith, ex-candidate for the presidency of the Democratic Party, has secured one-fifth interest in the management of the Giant baseball team . . . and, according to unconfirmed reports, he will be chosen the chief player of that team."- Senator William Edgar Borah...