Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats, and Wallaceites all reported favorable results, although returns are still unofficial and far from complete. HYRC and HLU both claim to have more than compensated for losses by graduation last year, while the Wallace group has signed up 92 freshmen with an almost equal number of upperclassmen expressing interest...
...Arthur Rank, having cornered all the movie rights to the XIV Olympiad, has produced a fine film of the games at St. Moritz and London, as complete as general interest and one sitting will stand, well-edited and photographed in excellent technicolor...
...found in both parties. They realize that there are progressives and conservatives in the ranks of both. They know that party affiliation does not change human instincts or affect loyalty to country ... No party has a patent on progress, a copyright on governmental principles or a proprietary interest in the advances made in former days...
Beyond that, a campaign was the one way to whip up the faithful party workers, charged with bringing out the party vote. It was a way to stir up interest among the bored and doubtful, to translate votes on a poll into votes in the ballot box. Above all, it was the great chance for any politician to get out where he could see and be seen, where he could make friends and influence voters, where he could work his political pitch at the grassroots level...
...whose eyes and appetites were, unfortunately, larger than his pocketbook . . . Not only was he a collector of paintings and drawings by the old masters . . . but his collection of prints contained a working library of ideas and iconographical suggestions. Moreover his passion for antique busts was rivaled only by his interest in weapons and ethnological specimens from America and the Indies. His paintings further show that he kept a vast costumery; among these were the magnificent vestments . . . which appear in his studies of Jewish rabbis and in the Biblical scenes...