Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Government has no spending power whatever except that which it acquires by taxing its citizens, and every dollar in 'Federal funds' that has been received by 'Kentucky and other States' will be repaid by the people of Kentucky and the other States-with interest. There is no Santa Claus in Washington...
...Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot; later expressing his interest in Joe's defending the championship...
...unusual interest, therefore, was the publication last week of a book by Dr. Lowell called What a University President Has Learned.* Lowell fans who may have expected a penitent confession and prophetic insight distilled from his ordeal by fire were, however, disappointed. Dr. Lowell at 81 still thinks, for example, despite the contrary findings of modern psychologists, that Latin, Greek and mathematics are the most valuable subjects for training youngsters to think. He believes it is better for a boy to learn French by formal methods in the U. S. than by talking with Frenchmen in Paris...
...About Town") which made a specialty of entertaining and impudent eavesdropping ("Edna St. Vincent Millay, the love poem writer, just bought a new set of store teeth"). He invented "welded," "sealed" and "middle aisled" to mean married, "renovated," "wilted" and "have phffft" for parted or divorced. And a glimmering interest in politics was evidenced in this item printed in September 1932: " 'Sonny' Whitney has dropped the name of Vanderbilt because 'it is incongruous' . . . Sonny also doesn't want you to call him 'Sonny' now that he's running for office. . . . They called...
...Amadeo Peter Giannini's giant Bank of America. The bank's 493 branch managers were telephoning in reports, and statisticians were preparing to issue Bank of America's six-month financial statement. Few days before, six major Los Angeles banks, pleading hard times, cut their maximum interest rates on time and savings deposits from 2% to 1½%, but Mr. Giannini swore up & down he would not cut his. "A. P." did not need to, he boasted, for Bank of America was making its greatest profit in years, might make more money in 1938's first...