Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...community so rich in the stuff of life could fail to provide a political scene of more than common interest and activity. True to form, with the Democratic primary elections a fortnight away, last week the Florida peninsula was restlessly ending a notably lively three-cornered fight for the nomination which would mean the occupancy of Claude Pepper's U. S. Senate seat. For the past six weeks, Messrs. David Sholtz, Mark Wilcox and Claude Pepper, as well as two other minor candidates whose names not even many Florida voters knew, had been touring Florida's sticky villages...
...because of income tax interest was the U. S. involved in the Savarona's sale last week but rather because, in a transfer of a U. S. ship to foreign registry, the U. S. Maritime Commission must know to what purpose, whether bellicose or not, the ship is to be put. Two bids were made for the ship, one by the Turks, the other by an unnamed German. Although it appeared the German bid might win, the required information about the future use of the ship was not supplied. The Maritime Commission was thus able to presume that...
Philippe Gangnat's father, Maurice, made his money in steel, took no interest in painting until 1903. In that year he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought twelve paintings right off the bat and soon became a fast friend of the old painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania...
...call upon all editors ... to recognize a growing criticism, to face it fairly, to set their houses in order, to be governed by good taste, by a sense of justice, by complete devotion to the public interest, and to toil unceasingly to educate our readers to such a sense of the value of a free press in America that the citizens of this republic shall become the willing cooperators, the fellow warriors with us, in a never-ceasing fight for the maintenance of democratic institutions...
...Alleghany Corp., top holding company of all. In between Alleghany and C. & O. is another holding company, Chesapeake Corp., which owns 35% of C. & O. common stock. Guaranty Trust Co. has its hands on the elevator connecting all three because it has possession of Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp. as collateral on three bond issues now in technical default...