Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...credit to your reporting of Banker Hevener's humiture in TIME, Aug. 15, pp. 9 & 10. It arouses an interest I developed years ago, namely-why not "do something" about weather to the extent of interpreting it in terms of effect on humans? THEODORE C. COMBS...
...politics had only a self-conscious interest for the country mailmen. As Civil Servants they were more interested in swapping notes on how to give "Service with a Smile" (their Association's motto) ; in swapping routes (a man from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick...
Since the car was sent to grocery and liquor warehouses with no interest in Woolworth paper & pencils, the union accused the Association of San Francisco Distributors of fomenting trouble. The Association retorted that it was seeking a showdown on "quickie" and sympathetic strikes before renewing a number of expired union contracts, had adopted the hot car to see how union-members would behave. Exulted a Distributors' spokesman: "We are now in a position to enforce our right of collective bargaining and we don't intend to give...
About a year ago, Wall Street underwriters foresaw another upturn. Some 135 loans, big & small, had been announced. Suddenly a double disaster occurred. A $44,000,000 issue of new Pure Oil stock attracted so little interest underwriters had to put the bulk of it in cold storage; on $48,000,000 worth of Bethlehem Steel debentures underwriters were estimated to have lost $1,725,000. Other businesses contemplating new stock and bond issues called off their plans...
...chief interest in Biographer Pearson's own life is the period he spent as an officer in Persia during the War; he outstared and outran the natives, boasts of making tough army men eat out of his hand. Of main interest to the reader are his anecdotes of George Bernard Shaw, Chesterton, Frank Harris, Hilaire Belloc, Conan Doyle. The best of them-a sizzling dialogue, between Shaw and Chesterton, Frank Harris' belligerent interview with Galsworthy-are secondhand. Also among the secondhand are such random anecdotes as one concerning a friend of a friend who once found himself...