Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inter-House Athletic Committee rejected yesterday a request for a bowling league on the basis of insufficient interest. However, Clarence Hutchinson '51, sponsor of the request, said that he will go ahead with plans for the league...
Frank B. Gilbert '52, editor-in-chief of the 1952 Red Book announced last night that this year's Red Book staff would attempt to informalize the contents of the annual "to interest every member of the Class of '52 in it." Gilbert has called a meeting for Wednesday, December 8, of all former secondary, school newspaper, yearbook, and magazine editors in the freshman class to begin the program...
They also explained his lack of interest in the machinations of the A.F.L.'s jealous, bumbling, convention-bound rulers. In the 22 years since he climbed down from a laundry truck to become an organizer for the teamsters, Dave Beck had never begged for crumbs at the table of the A.F.L. hierarchy. He had become a Big Man despite them, by virtue of his own ambition, ability and ruthlessness...
Havana travelers show little interest in the crowded and expensive Miami winter season. The Cuban season starts in the spring, hits a peak in midsummer (30,000 in June, July, August and September), ends this week. During the summer, Cubans joke that Biscayne Boulevard is merely an extension of Havana's Prado; Cuban business kept a record 225 of Miami Beach's 338 hotels open all this year...
Cheap Money. Wall Streeters had expected that the Treasury Department, worried about inflation, would contract credit by again boosting the rate on its short-term securities, thus paving the way for a rise in interest rates all around. But the Treasury seemed to think that inflationary pressure was dropping; last week it announced that it would continue the present rate on short-term borrowings, and all issues of long-term U.S. Treasury bonds moved above their Federal Reserve support levels...