Word: interest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...powers which must be curbed by the Federal power. But after Mr. Henderson and the Janizariat and the President started out to prove that case, in stepped Senator O'Mahoney. He it was who, by nimble action on the President's message, preserved for Congress a half-interest in the investigation, and became its chairman. And since he did that, the mood of Congress has become even less critical of Business. Last week's copious anesthetics, administered by Mr. Henderson and friends, were thus for the benefit of Congress as well as for Business...
...Parmly Day, the treasurer of Yale, expects to pay part of the university's expenses from unexpected legacies. He was therefore both surprised and not surprised when he picked up his paper one morning last week and learned that a rich old gentleman who had never shown any interest in the university's management and who had not been in New Haven in six years had left Yale some...
Meanwhile, they watched with interest last week's game at Manhattan's Polo Grounds. The Redskins and the Giants had galloped down to the final game neck & neck, just as they had last year. Everyone knew the Giants were out to avenge last year's 49-to-14 massacre-and go into the play-off with the Green Bay Packers for the U. S. championship. Avenge they did. Before 58,000 howling spectators, the Giants scored 14 points in the first twelve minutes, recovered fumbles and intercepted passes until they had put the Redskins to rout...
...plan, revealed Saturday and described at the President's press conference as "the greatest human interest story in the last six years," calls for the turning over to the Federal Government of the Roosevelt Hyde Park estate and the construction of a building to house the President's papers for the use of posterity's scholars...
...giving out his "greatest human interest story in the last six years" (or at least since last Monday's announcement that James Roosevelt will assist Samuel Goldwyn in the movies), the President called on Harvard's Morison to give his opinion of the plan...