Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...division chief in the Attorney General's Office, Judge Thomas snorted that a subpoena was unnecessary, promised to debark in the Canal Zone and return immediately if necessity demanded. Though Federal authorities said they wanted Judge Thomas and his books chiefly for the Manton investigation, they confessed their interest in a case from Judge Thomas' own court: the McKesson & Robbins receivership that exploded the notorious Coster-Musica drug scandal (TIME...
...named Arthur L. Johnson, General Welfare Federation now maintains the only year-round old-age-pension lobby in Washington. The General Welfare Act it proposes, promising $60 at 60, is based on a gross income tax of persons and firms, exempting only sums paid out in wages, taxes and interest. The plan is modeled after taxes now levied in Indiana and Hawaii, and the federation calculates it could raise $7,000,000,000 a year for pensions in the U.S. The General Welfare Act has 100 pledged supporters in the present Congress. Two of them, California's Jerry Voorhis...
...provided by the President for a ten day visit during which he will exchange neighborhood gossip with Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, talk shop with Mexico's military chiefs. Conscious that the eyes of Washington were upon him to be sure he did not show too much interest in radical Mexico's expropriation stunts or in her barter deals with fascist countries, Colonel Batista lost no time in seeing U. S. press correspondents, reassuring them that Cuba is "not going Communist, nor Fascist, nor Nazi. We are progressives." The Colonel recently had his bread buttered with...
Politics at Harvard stops at the water's edge, which, of course, is another way of saying that it has never become an issue of really fundamental importance. Nevertheless, every now and then in the past a group of would-be politicos has aroused so much interest in the subject that certain fundamental weaknesses have come to light. And now the Student Council, sitting in judgement on itself, has decided that its procedure in the past has been in general correct, but that in certain important details it could be improved. So far as it goes, the report is constructive...
This is not true since if any House player had much ability and showed any interest he would be on the Junior Varsity. Furthermore it is obviously easier to coach a small J. V. squad than the many House teams. Therefore the coaches will draw more from the J. V. squad than from the House teams. John W. Brooks...