Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the oval study on the second floor of the White House trooped the Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest...
...books shut, announced that the Authority was "broke but happy.'' Although there were only 46 local housing authorities when USHA set up shop, there are now 221 (in 31 States) qualified to take advantage of USHA's bargain terms-90% of the cost in longterm, low-interest loans-for slum clearance and low-rental housing programs. Not actually broke, USHA has signed $291,656,000 worth of contracts, earmarked $355,919,000 more, will keep the rest of its nest egg as a "safety margin" until fresh funds are forthcoming. Without directly asking for any, Administrator Straus...
...interpretation of the Book of Esther, appearing in Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels' Berlin Der Angriff last week, was of greater interest to diplomats than to Bible students...
...There's a big pickup of interest in the game this year," Chester E. Sargent, a major in the field artillery and mentor of both Varsity and Freshman polo, declared yesterday as he sent his men through their third week of drill...
...order to recondition the basement room of Andover Hall for the cafeteria which is at present scheduled for opening January 5, and in order to buy necessary equipment, the cooperative has secured the promise of University aid to the extent of $5,500. This money would be repaid, without interest, over a period of five years. But as one condition of this loan, President Conant and Dean Sperry have both declared that Women, even as guests, cannot be allowed in the cafeteria...