Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...besplattered League alone. A. L. P. D. has some 20,000 active members, claims 7,500,000 more through unions and assorted organizations whose leaders joined the League as a gesture against Fascism, toward peace, to help unionize grocery stores, boycott Germany, participate in 101 activities of no immediate interest to Moscow...
Governor Long then began his New Orleans campaign for the Governorship with the reassuring statement that his "hands were clean." But at this point the Federal Government showed interest in why the tax-racket hearings had been stopped. One of Attorney General Frank Murphy's "smart boys," Harold Rosenwald, announced that the Federal Grand Jury would immediately start hearings. Earl Kemp Long kept mum. But he and all Louisiana were aware that only Earl's boss, Mayor Robert S. Maestri of New Orleans, still remained untouched by the tidal wave that in four months has washed up nearly...
...Pope's first encyclical traditionally establishes the spiritual tone of his reign. Pius' was to be the restoration of the faith and the re-establishment of the family group. But to non-Catholics the chief interest in the Pontiff's 13,000 words was not spiritual but political, and politically, even though it despaired of peace now, the encyclical was extraordinary...
...less. But shortly thereafter, the outfit was completely reorganized and enlarged. So vast was the change that when Benny Goodman auditioned the band "sat-in" and played with them for fifteen minutes, breaking the clarinet player's reed in the process. And shortly thereafter, Fitch Band Wagon evinced considerable interest in having them on their program sometime during the year...
...distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...