Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the most interesting "case" on the team is that of Dave Simboli, a Junior who is running for his first year along the Charles. Last spring, about two weeks before the Yale meet, Simboli took his first visible interest in Harvard track when he turned up and started running. He was nursed along then, did a little work during the summer, and now he is a mainstay among the "first five" of the harriers, as his third in the Holy Cross meet last Friday will show...
About one third of policyholders now have loans of $3,399,000,000 against their policies, generally pay annual interest at 6% amounting to some $200,000,000. This interest will continue in force, but on all new loans after January 1 the companies will get only 5%-a drop in income for which the companies can compensate in only three ways: 1) finding improved investment opportunities elsewhere; 2) raising premiums; 3) cutting dividends. All forms of investment, however, are producing a smaller return these days as a result of the cramped U. S. capital market and the New Deal...
...example Mutual Life of New York announced that on new policies its guaranteed interest rate to beneficiaries would be reduced from 3% to 2½%, that dividends accumulating at interest will get 2½% instead of 3%, that premiums on endowment annuity policies will increase. Last week Northwestern Mutual warned: "All life insurance companies are making important changes in their contracts. . . . These changes may mean an increase in price ... of insurance...
...Quincy), Western Pacific has 1,207 miles of road, a main line running from Oakland Mole, Calif. to Salt Lake City and from Keddie to Bieber, Calif., where it connects with the Great Northern And Western Pacific's holding company, Western Pacific R. R. Corp., has a half interest in Denver & Rio Grande Western. It thus forms a link in a direct route from St. Louis to the Pacific...
There are about 177,000 Negro votes in Pennsylvania, enough in Jim Farley's estimation to be called a decisive factor in the Democrats' capture of the State two years ago. So it was of major interest when important Democratic Publisher Vann, who pictures himself as the guiding mind for most of those votes, last week exhorted all Pennsylvania Negroes to vote for Judge James for Governor and ignore the rest of both tickets...