Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carefully prepared sheet of paper, read Chairman John Jacob Raskob of the Democratic National Committee to a group of astonished newsgatherers. At the disclosure that the Democratic deficit had been almost cut in half in five months, despite the party's crushing defeat, news-trained noses quivered with interest...
...first fruit of Mr. Shouse's appearance in Washington, was the "discovery" last week by the Treasury Department of an order, signed in 1920 by Assistant Secretary Shouse, requiring customs inspection of all baggage of U. S. officials claiming "free entry." Dry congressmen with wet baggage have revived interest in this port courtesy. The Treasury indicated that the oldtime Shouse order would probably be taken no more seriously than before its rediscovery...
...Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League or to the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Indeed, the U. S. public in general probably took scant interest in the facts that the new company will manufacture annually some 5,000,000 gallons of denatured alcohol, that it will be eighth largest U. S. industrial alcohol concern. Yet industrial alcohol, with more than 400 separate uses, from the ethylene of the obstetrician to the embalming fluid...
...still the Hudson was unbridged, and still the North River Bridge Co. was more a prospectus than a performance. Furthermore, the Pennsylvania R. R., now snugly located in Manhattan, could not well be expected to take interest in additional bridges. And Builder Lindenthal and his associates were growing old. Undiscouraged, however, he continued with his plans. After the conclusion of the War, he suggested that an admirable War Memorial would be a bridge across the Hudson, but this suggestion met with no great approval. Some six years ago, when even New York's City Fathers had begun to catch...
...Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...