Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Providence. The slump in Kolster Radio proceeded from a 1928 earnings statement that showed earnings of 20? a share. Kolster stock has been prominent on the Coast partly through the fact that Sugarman Rudolph Spreckels (TIME, Nov. 19) is chairman of its board, partly through public interest in radio television, talking pictures, and similar manifestations of science in the fields of entertainment and communication. Thus Kolster stock boomed. Lately, however, worried by the Federal Reserve Board and its anti-speculation activities, frightened by untrue rumors of a great Kolster deficit, California operators began to sell Kolster short. This bear movement...
...older countries [invited to the convention] offer something of a challenge to the voice and speed of our western civilization. . . ." The contributions were not startling. Rabindranath Tagore deplored the constitutional western tendency to material thinking. India's Laurence Frederic Rushbrook Williams, educator, stressed Empire thinking. Of most interest to U. S. citizens was the suggestion that U. S. cinemas be prohibited or strictly censored because of their sex motifs. Also suggested: prohibiting or curtailing sale of sensational U. S. newspapers and magazines in Can ada, abolition of-U. S.-made comic strips, substitution of Canadian. † The Canadian National...
Equally natural to the man in the streets of Boston seemed, at first, last week's news that International Paper Co., makers of newsprint on the banks of the St. Lawrence, had bought a half-interest in the Boston Publishing Co., publishers of the Boston Herald (morning) and Boston Traveler (evening), two of the most prosperous, of the Seventh City's many dailies...
...good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash up the dishes or dandle the baby; as mildly amused to stalk a capercailzie as to butcher an Emperor. . . . Lenin was the Grand Repudiator. He repudiated everything. He repudiated God, King, Country, morals, treaties, debts, rents, interest, the laws and customs of centuries, all contracts written or implied, the whole structure - such as it is - of human society. In the end he repudiated himself." To the Allies' shambling policy, or rather lack of policy regarding the Soviet, Churchill attributes much of Russia's tragedy. Timely support...
...reasons he would not discuss- the autocrat of musicians turned democrat and announced not only that every player was a potential conductor, but that each would be given a chance to prove it. Conductor Stokowski explained: "I am going to have them conduct at rehearsals. The plan has other interesting possibilities. Often the first player of an instrument will wish to conduct. This will result not only in giving him the experience he desires but in enabling the second player to play first and the third player to play the second instrument. Thus all will gain in experience." Disinterested music...