Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will doubtless be of interest to J. B. Scott to learn that this report finds that down to March 1919, the Y. M. C. A. made free distribution of canteen supplies to a total of 13,613,027.64 francs, of writing material to the amount of 9,072,493.30 francs, and of free newspapers to the amount of 3,092,944.17 francs, or a total of 25,778,465.11 francs, which at the average rate of exchange for the months given, equals...
Being a master in another Eastern preparatory school, I read with great interest your article on the unique new plan applied to The Hill School for determining the advisability of college for each boy. The Hill School is to be highly commended for devising a new method to control the present American passion for a liberal arts college degree, regardless of fitness...
...Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...
...banking of assets is another method whereby U. S. judges may profit in bankruptcy cases. Deposits can be made in a bank in which the jurist has a private stock holding. He collects the interest rather than the creditors...
...solicitude for his safety. He knew that they were not going to ask him about the new Pan-American air mail route he had been inaugurating.* He knew,.alas, that they knew that he was going to do something that contained the essence of what is called "Human Interest." It did seem to him that when a man, even a Hero, is going to get married, that he might be let alone. The newsgatherers were waving slips of paper which read: "Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Spencer to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." Well...