Word: interest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Packed as the present is with events of absorbing interest, so is TIME, favorite publication of the undersigned. Enjoyed especially your notes in the issue of March 18 concerning Grand National at Aintree, England. Among other horse-enthusiasts off to England is Horatio C. Ford of South Euclid, Ohio, president of the two-year-old Aintree Club of the same address on the outskirts of Greater Cleveland. Horses from Cleveland's Aintree follow trails near, through and beyond beautiful Chagrin Valley, long-hunted country of the Fifth City's riders, past homes of Ambassador Herrick, newly-appointed...
...preparatory conference is to deal with land armaments, beginning with Russia's proposition for an unarmed world, descending toward practicability. In reduction of land forces the U.S. has no interest, leaving that question to Europe. Still it could not go to a disarmament conference without a disarmament program, no matter how negative, so one was prepared last week...
...large, loose-knit man born 65 years ago in Bethany, Ill., Senator Jones has never taken a drink (that he knows of), has never smoked tobacco, has seen, he says, only one drunken man in all his life. His range of legislative interest has by no means been confined to prohibition. No smooth speaker, never brilliant, his name is nevertheless upon the latest Merchant Marine Act (Jones-White) under which eleven great Shipping Board vessels were recently sold (TIME, Feb. 18). All day every day during Senate sessions he can be found in his aisle seat, behind an embankment...
State Senators snoozed through the Johnston trial. The citizens of Oklahoma City were so hardened to this form of political revenge that even testimony about Mrs. O.O. Hammonds, the Governor's "ewe lamb" secretary, failed to whip up their lagging interest...
...great opportunity of the talking moving picture remains, however, the spread of the Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the hither most parts of the globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...