Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedy Ford sedan was the clue that led to the arrest of 40 people in North Germany last week, reawakening German interest in the notorious Organization Konsul, bloodthirsty Nationalist secret society which was responsible for the assassinations of onetime Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger in 1921 and Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau...
...been the Mohawk-Hudson power interest that has brought the Morgan Company most of its publicity as a utility factor. Mohawk-Hudson was organized jointly by United Gas Improvement and General Electric. It functions throughout northeastern New York, with Albany its southern centre. In June (TIME, June 24) two other New York state utilities merged with Mohawk-Hudson, extended the Mohawk-Hudson territory west to Buffalo and northeast along the St. Lawrence. The merged company was christened Niagara-Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although...
...famed Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve. In part, she observed that it is "practically impossible for all except a very few unusual young women to attempt working their way for four years without serious injury to their health or academic standing or both. ... I have in mind an able and interesting girl who hitchhiked across country from the Pacific Coast a few years ago and started to work her way through Barnard. In spite of our efforts to aid her the strain had produced, by the time she graduated, permanent injury to her heart. ... As a general rule women...
...between the courts of Louis XV and mad Tsar Paul invested it with such architecture and haberdashery as even opulent Hollywood has rarely conceived. Liane Haid plays the buxom, duelling girl friend of Pompadour who is sent, dressed as a man, to learn the state secrets of St. Petersburg. Interest focusses on Fritz Kortner's interpretation of the Tsar, for it is the role with which Emil Jannings scored in The Patriot. The malevolence of Kortner's Tsar is never mitigated by the lunatic innocence which Jannings managed to suggest. Both are vivid; you must decide for yourself...
...case wondered: 1) could Mrs. Burns prove that the American, when it printed Burns's story, "well knew" of his malice towards her? 2) If she could prove that, and prove her whole story, was it worth $100,000 to the American to have printed without verifying its "human interest" story about "poor War Veteran Burns...