Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lectures of interest today...
...James Couzens, Michigan's millionaire Senator, the U. S. Treasury last week sent a check for $989,833. The Senator accepted it, though noting formally that there was a "slight miscalculation" of $20,000 or more for interest. The money was a tax refund which Senator Couzens won as the result of a fight started by the Internal Revenue Bureau three years ago to increase the Couzens profit-tax on Ford Motors stock sold by him in 1919 (TIME, January...
...appointment and was continued four years ago by popular election. His health kept Senator du Pont away from Washington most of last session. This session, though resigned, he will be more present than usual in his onetime-colleague's minds, since the Senate is taking an interest in his fight with Samuel Insull over a Kentucky waterfall...
...revenues over expenditures. The Treasury expects its total receipts for the year to increase about 10 millions over 1929, whereas the Government's total expenditures are figured at 14 millions below 1929. One large item helping this decrease will be 35 millions less to be paid in interest on the public debt, the principal of which will have been reduced by another billion (leaving a total of some 18 billions) by the end of 1929. The Government's running expenses are, in general, on the increase. The Budget Bureau keeps its aggregate down by paring and balancing. Thus...
Naturally, in the application of such treatment everything depends on the skill of the bacteriologist who examines the patient's blood and determines the nature of the injections. Therefore, British interest has focused sharply on Dr. L. E. H. Whiteby, the brilliant young bacteriologist who was called in by the elder royal physicians Baron Dawson of Penn, Physician-in-Ordinary, and Sir Stanley Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary (TIME, Dec. 3). Dr. Whiteby, with amazing speed, in 24 hours produced an autogenous vaccine from infected material taken from His Majesty. That vaccine was injected into the royal blood stream and directly...