Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enviable one. He must interview a large group of men in a very short time, and make a selection, based not on a simple criterion such as scholastic standing, which, as the editorial admits, would be unfair, but rather on a large number of factors, such as interest in outside activities, friends in the House, accessibility to a desired tutor, and the number of rooms available in the applicant's price range...
...reform wave whipped up by the News Negro leaders saw their chance to improve the condition of Miami's ramshackle, malodorous Negro section on the city's east side. They stirred up such interest in the commission primary that election officials provided two extra, segregated voting machines in the chief Negro polling place, the fifth precinct fire station. Evening before primary day, certain white citizens took other precautions...
...especially delicate for Franklin Roosevelt. Abandoning all pretense of innocence, he telegraphed optimistically to Manhattan: ". . " The differences of viewpoint . . . appear not to be insurmountable. . . . The public interest is paramount. ... As President of the United States, I caution the negotiators on both sides to keep this in mind...
Last week a judgment for $250,000 plus $132,756,78 in interest, stood against the Benedictine Society of Latrobe, Pa.-corporate name of the community of St. Vincent Archabbey. Decade ago the late Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, who had established a Catholic University in Peiping, China, borrowed $250,000 from Peiping's National City Bank at 7% (legal Chinese rate), for repairs and new buildings. Archabbot Stehle died, control of the university passed from the Benedictines to the Society of the Divine Word, and the loan went unpaid. In 1936, the bank brought suit against the Benedictines, who countered...
...walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became a millionaire banker...