Word: interested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase of $500,000,000 over last year's ordinary expenses. A few items which might possibly be called military costs were included: $309,400,000 for the relief of families of mobilized men, $55,250,000 for refugees from the war zones, $143,650,000 for interest payments on money yet to be borrowed...
...otherwise be spent. To keep down the price of consumer goods, to temper the war inflation for those who do not enjoy its upward effect on wages and speculative profits, Mr. Keynes proposed a double levy on all incomes, one part to consist of tax, the other of low-interest (2½%) loan to the Government, to be deposited at the Post Office Savings Bank and redeemed only after hostilities cease (except for personal dire emergency). On small incomes, the tax levy would be low, the loan levy high. Example: on ?500 of income, a total of ?105 (21%) might...
...Graver Johnson and to the 49 underliers the decision was a blow. As late as 1928 the city was on the point of condemning their property for a handsome $149,000,000. But last week the 25,000 underlier stockholders got $31,973,597 worth of bonds bearing 3% interest ($959,207 a year) and another 3% if it is earned. The underliers also got $12,300,000 of preferred stock...
Thus considered, the novel is far from fascinating. What gives it its considerable interest is Author Holden's dogged, intelligent exploration of precisely those matters which run-of-the-mine novelists shirk: namely, the ambiguous complexities of even the most "normal" motives and actions. These subtleties and minutiae are themselves the true substance of this story. Lacking entirely the brilliance of the best work in its field, lacking no less the textbook glibness of the cheap work, as a psychological novel, Believe the Heart is definitely to be respected...
...Lowell administration and sought refuge at Yale, dramatics at Harvard have been living from hand to mouth. Three times alumni have offered to build a School of Dramatic Arts, and each time the University reechoed "the theatre has no place in the life of Harvard students." More interest has been focused upon the stage than ever before--upon experiment and student playwriting by the Dramatic Club, upon skits and plays of social comment by the Student Union, upon more and more productions by the Houses and the newly formed "'41 workshop". But despite this expenditure of energy Harvard has ignored...