Word: interest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worth of overhauling, but a $50 donation started off a collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...
...middle way. We need not agree with those who want government to run their daily lives and look after the welfare of every citizen to the destruction of individual liberty and incentive and progress. On the other hand, we need not agree with those who refuse any interest on the part of the Federal Government...
...office last week, one of his first callers was Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Early. After a long and earnest conversation, peace was declared. Johnson issued a formal statement which put Congressmen and federal officials on their honor to use military aircraft only for trips in the "national interest." Definition of national interest was largely left to the conscience of the officeholder and his boss. Cooed Elmer Thomas: "I commend Secretary Johnson for his decision...
...will speak freely," he promised, fingering the script of his first broadcast, which will be recorded and flown to the U.S. "I have no wish to reform anything, no wish to preach and no advice to offer. I just want to talk to people about things that interest me and that I hope will interest them." His sponsor, Lee Hats, decided on Montgomery (reportedly at $5,000 per week) when Lee ended its 3½-year tie-up with Gossipist Drew Pearson. Asked his opinion of his predecessor, Montgomery replied with a brisk "No comment." But he admitted that...
...just as well without money. He stayed on as chairman of his most potent company, Bankers Securities Corp., and came back fast. Through Securities Corp. he moved into control of City Stores, Loft Candy Corp., New York's Hearn Department Stores, Inc. retail chain, and a big minority interest in Walter Hoving's Hoving Corp. (Bonwit Teller, John David, Anson-Jones). Still one of the biggest U.S. real-estate operators and hotel owners, he was the prime mover in luring the 1948 Republican and Democratic conventions to Philadelphia, was grandiloquently dubbed "Mr. Philadelphia." He was a heavy contributor...