Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jobs for years and people with stopgap jobs that are not jobs at all. Since the applications as a group are more impressive than any single one, TIME will wind up its experiment in a forthcoming issue by publishing three columns of job-wanted letters chosen primarily for their interest to readers...
...worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that PWAdministrator Harold Ickes was the only judge of the fairness of the utilities' offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price...
...First is interest at the moment because it is exhibited to call attention to the fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...
...Cross is taking an interest in the safety campaign, inaugurated by Charles M. Dole of New York, president of the newly-formed National Ski Patrol Dr. L. M. Thompson of the Washington headquarters will sit in at the convention of the National Ski Association at Milwaukee today. He is scheduled to report on nationally organized skiing safety plans...
...handicap which would make the President hesitate before naming him. Against Professor Frankfurter there are only two bad points from the White House point of view. The first is that during the bitter fight last year, when Mr. Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court was engaging the interest of the country Professor Frankfurter refused to stand at Armageddon and do battle for the Sage of Hyde Park...