Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the years their weekly habit of reading TIME has built up a communality of interest among our readers. They tell us that TIME has become their frame of reference, that its news stories not only provoke intelligent, active discussion and supply the facts upon which it is based, but also provide a bond of broad interest for immediate conversation wherever TIME readers meet...
Chairman Thomas hastily assured him that that point was of no interest.* What about Communists in the Guild? They were just a noisy, overrated minority, said Lavery. As for outlawing the party, he agreed with the FBI's boss J. Edgar Hoover: driving the Reds underground would only make them harder to find. The positive way to handle the problem, he thought, was to promote American ideals...
...time since he had been a private citizen. Gil Winant, a rich man's son, had spent most of his life in some kind of service to his country. As a scraggly youth at St. Paul's School in Concord, N. H., he had developed a. burning interest in U.S. history. As a Princeton undergraduate he had left college in 1912 to campaign for Roosevelt...
...believe in the capacity of the state to plan and enforce an active high-grade economic productivity upon its members or subjects. . . . I am sure that this policy of equalizing misery and organizing scarcity, instead of allowing diligence, self-interest and ingenuity to produce abundance, has only to be prolonged to kill this British Island stone dead. We are told, and I am told, that we Conservatives have no policy. . . . Here is the policy: establish a basic standard for life and labor and provide the necessary basic foods for all. Once that is done, set the people free...
...alarm to the existing inadequate facilities for these groups." 'There are fewer and fewer available meeting rooms, for example,' Watson commented, "and more and more student activities. It must become widely realized at once that the situation now is not what is was ten years ago when extra-curricular interest did not run so high...