Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope that it will be of interest to you, I relay to you a report from my roommate. We are both endeavoring to enter the Foreign Service of the U. S. and when we noted in the newspaper that a bellboy here in Washington had passed the written examinations without preparation of the formal variety, a delegation of one, my roommate, went snooping for whys...
...years, its first-year size at $870,000,000, ultimate size $3,860,000,000. Rather than rob WPA to pay PWA said he, let Congress empower the following agencies to lend (NOT spend) the following sums on the following projects, which would pay for themselves in the end, interest payments meantime causing the funds to revolve...
Businessmen flinched at the prospect of seeing the Government step into railroads as it has into Power. But soon Wall Street learned that any investment houses which wanted to hurry and outbid the Government, float equipment trusts of their own at low interest rates, would receive the New Deal's blessing and perhaps insurance for their money...
...TIME, June 26), the Post got a new owner: the American Labor Party's City Councilman George Backer, whose liberalism is more profound than J. David Stern's and whose financial resources are greater. Young (36) Publisher Backer's first acts were to pay back, with interest, the 10% of their salaries the Post's staff members had been contributing to the paper since last September and to hire Cartoonist Rollin Kirby, who was dropped by the World-Telegram in March after he had shown himself too pronounced a liberal for the Scrippsless Scripps-Howard newspaper...
First indication of the change came soon after the Wall Street Crash, when Pub lisher Patterson walked into the city room and announced: "We're off on the wrong foot. The people's major interest is in how they're going to eat." On March 6, 1933 the News announced: "This newspaper now pledges itself to support the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a period of at least one year." Not only did the News support the New Deal, but it devoted itself wholeheartedly to selling it to the people. Joe Patterson became...