Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than 5% of WPA's present 3,000,000 clients should be cut off the rolls before April 1; 2) that the President might request a further WPAppropriation before June 30 if he perceives another "emergency" and can define it. *He expected that its cost (but not the interest on the investment) would eventually be repaid by ship tolls...
...less bright was the picture of Chinese finances. China has borrowed $25,000,000 from the U. S., hopes for $15,000,000 from Great Britain. Last week China canceled interest and amortization payments on debts secured by her customs because the Japanese collect nearly all the customs. At the beginning of the war there was an estimated $300,000,000 worth of Chinese assets held abroad. The present Chinese kitty is supplied with funds raised by taxing the internal transportation of goods, salt, cigarets and textiles, by floating some $200,000,000 worth of patriotic loans...
...tremendous bellows of Hollywood publicity that are building up Nancy Kelly into stardom and the sweet simplicity of sturdy Richard Greene, you may enjoy the fine technical effects (especially the fog) of this bloodless movie. The film's makers have had to go afield from the old love-interest, which is a pretty wet gag in Hollywood now, and have substituted a branch of the Navy as the real hero. So they escape some of the soggier romance of Boy and Girl. The scene where the sub-chaser sneaks through the mine-filled fog and destroys an enemy submarine...
...discouraging material--an ordinary spy mystery--and has, characteristically, brewed from it a tense, gripping drama. With his uncanny skill in ordering the presentation of his material, he succeeds in building up punishing suspense, and, moreover, manages to do what few, if any, other directors can do--maintain constant interest, even down to the most casual remarks and the most inconsequential nuances. Comedy elements and other extraneous situations are introduced with perfect timing to relieve the brooding tension otherwise continuous...
...Great Man Votes" tells what happens to all good Harvard graduates who drink too much, and as such is a fine object lesson. It is also a very good picture in its own right. Although scornful of the ordinary limits of credulity, its whimsy and human interest combine to make a pleasant, more is at the top of his form, but is closely press-oftentimes moving, comedy. Actor John Barryed by two child performers. They are Virginia Weidler and Peter Holden, Broadway's infant who speaks with the wisdom and dignity of the ages...