Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interest on bank loans...
...believe there would be interest in a short feature of quotations of those earlier men with a simple salutation to the individual concerned, as: To-Bob Pastor: He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again...
Fading Front. What happens to the minuscule (90,000 members) U. S. Communist Party as such is of more interest than import to the U. S. people at large. What happened last week to its ardently nurtured Popular Front was funny to many, painful to many. On the theory that democratic governments and peoples could be usefully linked in a world front against Fascism to save the imperiled U. S. S. R., Communists in 1935 postponed the revolution, began to woo. They fashioned a domestic program so broad that no liberally minded citizen or group could oppose...
...Russia, a Russia of armed hordes . . . and political doctrines which destroyed the health and soul of nations." Of Stalin's purge he wrote: "For all its horrors, a glittering light plays over the scenes and actors of the French Revolution. . . . But the Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their strange unnatural confessions to the world. They have met the death in secret to which they consigned so many better and braver...
Composed of Overseers and outsiders chosen for their interest in a particular field, the committee's function is to advise the various department of the University. They exercise no actual control of policy, and the position is largely honorary...