Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclosed clipping from the Journal of Edmonton, Alberta, is of interest to us particularly because it indicates that the writer of this paragraph probably is unaware of the fact that over 500,000 public and private school children and students in our colleges, subscribed to this fund...
...Washington for its annual visit went a traveling company of the Metropolitan Opera. Of greatest interest and familiarity to President and Mrs. Hoover was Singer Lawrence Tibbett, native Californian, from Bakersfield (oil) hard by the Hoover ranch at San Joaquin (Sun Maid Raisins). Special mark of special interest: Singer Tibbett was invited to sing on Sunday at the White House. Two of Mr. Hoover's favorite songs are Ridi Pagliacci and The Road to Mandalay...
...went Virginia fishing license No. 172,523. To his fishing friend, Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, went license No. 172,-524. ¶ For Senor Pablo Ramirez, Chilean Minister of Finance, President Hoover gave a White House luncheon. Senor Ramirez is touring the U. S. in the interest of Chilean nitrate...
Last week Charles Gates Dawes was defensively preoccupied with the finances of the Dominican Republic. Mulling over matters of revenue, expenditures and interest on foreign loans, he could barely pause long enough to acknowledge publicly the fact that President Hoover had appointed him Ambassador to the Court of St. James's to succeed Alanson Bigelow Houghton, resigned. Congratulatory telegrams which preceded the official message from the State Department he tossed aside impatiently. Newsgatherers finally coaxed this statement from...
...officers threatened to buck the anti-trust law anyway and, as President Ralph Clinton Holmes of the Texas Co. put it, "if by chance we are held to be acting in restraint of trade, leave it to the courts to determine whether such restraint is in the public interest or not." But the Hoover administration recalled this clause in the final section of Article 1 of the Constitution: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any agreement or compact with another state. . . ." Interstate treaties were rare, though not new.* Secretary Wilbur prepared to send Dr. George Otis...