Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina borrowed, for industrial purposes, from the investors of Great Britain. Both principal and interest, about $75,000,000 to date, have been repudiated by these states...
Leslie Mortier Shaw, Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury (1902-07), wrote the committee: While Secretary of the Treasury I remained ... an active producer of farm products of many kinds which made me interested in trade and commerce. . . . I acquired a half-interest in a copartnership and became the largest stockholder in a corporation . . . both interested in state and interstate commerce. . . . The fact that we had to sell what we produced did not change the nature of our business from that of producer to that of trade or commerce. ... I was familiar with the statute, the manifest purpose...
...have succeeded in reducing the party deficit from $1,550,000 to $800,000, with every indication of a further reduction to under $500.000 within the next fortnight. . . . The party's interest can be advanced best by opening a permanent and adequate headquarters in Washington and the conducting of active organization work 365 days in the year. ... I have appointed Mr. Jouett Shouse, of Kansas City, to be chairman of the executive committee and he will immediately assume charge of the Washington office...
...John's College game by the return of Captain H. M. Hartnett '30 who was injured in the Dartmouth match. So far this season the records of the two teams are about equal with a slight advantage on the side of Syracuse. However, with the rapidly increasing interest which is being taken in the sport at Harvard the team should give a good account of itself...
...Harvard House Plan and the nearly completed Langdell Hall will be the principal objects of interest to the Overseers of the college when they hold their annual two-day meeting which begins on Monday morning at 9.15 o'clock in University Hall...