Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to interest and activize every member of the organization. The Student Union this week inaugurates several new activities in addition to expanding the ones which it has previously conducted...
Accordingly, last week the anti-lynching filibuster was interrupted to allow the Senate to pass its first real piece of business this session-a bill to amend the 1934 Housing Act. Mortgages were to be guaranteed up to 90%, interest was reduced to 5% and building of multiple dwellings for investment was encouraged. Pointedly omitted was the specification that prevailing local wages must be paid on the jobs. Pointedly, handsome young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge-another great friend of Labor-had proposed it, but in the end the Senate adopted (42-40) the amendment without the prevailing wage clause...
...Weakening or withdrawal by the Fatherland from the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo "Axis," the Army being convinced that Italy will desert Germany in the next war as she did in 1915, and that in the Far East it is clearly to Germany's interest to build friendly relations and trade with China...
Public pulse-takers are, nevertheless, agreed that an enormous interest in drawing, painting and modeling has recently arisen in the U. S. Whatever its source, this interest constitutes an economic demand. To meet it, there have been at least two ambitious attempts in the past six months to market excellent pictures at extremely low prices. Each was designed to do for the art of museums what radio has done for the art of symphonies-to bring it into U. S. homes. Last week each reached the stage of significant news...
...Harvard entries in tonight's meet the mile relay team will be watched with especial interest. In New York last Saturday the quartet of quarter-milers nosed out Yale in 3 min. 25 sec. The lineup is Frannie King, Hobart Lerner, Tudor Richards, and Jim Lightbody. With Richards out all week with a cold, however, Al Hanlon may run in his place...