Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unless the whole present tendency of the Government is redirected, we cannot long maintain financial solvency or free enterprise or even individual liberty in the United States. But the leaders of the movement against New Deal fallacies must have the courage to incur the unlimited displeasure of every vested interest whose selfish purposes conflict with a radical policy of reform. Furthermore, they must work out the very difficult problem of continuing an adequate provision for the less fortunate people through Relief, old age pensions, subsidized housing and the like on the one hand, while on the other restoring financial solvency...
...world authority on Napoleon's movements. It is his quiet boast that he can recite every Army order Napoleon issued - and to whom. But, although he is quite aware that the Po route may some day be his own, the Italian maneuvers were not his chief interest last week. Since he took charge of her armies, France has acquired a possible new border to defend or cross, the border between France and Spain. Having vainly urged Léon Blum to pitch in with the Loyalists and lick Francisco Franco in 1936, General Gamelin was now doing the next...
...Druse revolt, a suppression which he later succeeded in accomplishing alone with considerable bloodshed on the part of the Druses. He was on hand when French planes and artillery wiped out 1,456 civilians in the native quarters of Damascus, thus proving that Maurice Gamelin had no particular interest in inflicting minimum losses on his country's enemies. He was made commander of France's Army of the Levant, then brought home in 1928. Three years later he became Chief of Staff and in 1935 achieved what was then the biggest French military job, that of Vice President...
Fresh out of Harvard Law School in 1902, William Woodward was introduced to racing at Ascot and Newmarket while working in London as secretary to U. S. Ambassador Joseph Choate. In 1910, on the death of his uncle, Banker James T. Woodward, young Bill inherited not only controlling interest in Manhattan's Hanover National Bank, but also the famed Belair Stud, a 3,000-acre farm at Collington, Prince Georges County, Md., close by the spot where his paternal ancestors first settled...
...reversal was due to a sharp drop in applications on houses already built. But applications for houses to be built ran only 15% ahead of last year against a margin of 68% enjoyed earlier in the year. To offset this, FHA this week made another reduction in the maximum interest rate-from 5% to 4½%. Reason: cutting the rate last year from 52% to 5% produced an immediate increase in building and New York City's new 4½% rate (introduced by Bowery Savings Bank) is continuing to bring homebuilders' money...