Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agents logically came under suspicion first. A Grand Jury was asked to fix the blame. Nor did the government consider the owners of the lost liquor, the holders of the warehouse certificates, altogether blameless. Many of them were supposed to be onetime saloon keepers who had not wholly lost interest in liquor sales...
...ascertainable facts might have seemed thin in any place but Central Europe. But that part of the world is as full of spies as of flies. Only last fortnight Prague's Národni Politika, commenting absently on the spy situation, observed with interest that Russian spies seemed to be unusually numerous this year...
Prague's interest in the Pecha incident was modified during the week by the trial and sentence, in Prague, of another Czech spy-a Czech working against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
...resignation of Baron Giichi Tanaka, grizzled seadog, and the advent of Yuko Hamaguchi, tall, shaggy economist, as Prime Minister of Japan (TIME, July 8), seemed last week to portend two changes of international interest: 1) increased calm in China; 2) Japan's co-operation at the imminent five-power naval reduction conferences...
...instalment plan was last fortnight suggested to the Chicago Medical Society. President-elect Dr. James H. Hutton suggested that, physicians, when they are called on a new case, estimate the total cost of treatment, have the patient sign notes for the expected bill. The notes would bear 6% interest charges and would fall due at regular intervals, like instalments on a motor or radio. The doctor would take the notes to a special financing corporation and get $35 for every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid to the financing corporation the doctor...