Word: interest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peoples whose population is increasing no faster than in the United States." If he were in the White House, presented by Congress with a foreign aid bill that asked recipient nations to curb population growth, Kennedy said, he would judge the measure by whether it "would be in the interest of the United States." If such a bill became law, said he, "I would uphold it as the law of the land...
Senator Stuart Symington (Episcopalian) said: "I approve the Government's furnishing of planned parenthood information abroad where it believes the action is to the interest of our country...
...support of the conservative trade unions, though he knows that union domination of the party is one of the things that repels many voters. The unions, no longer underdogs, no longer able to count on public sympathy for slowdowns, strikes and restrictive practices, are still the most powerful vested interest in the party. They provide 75% of its funds, control 17 of 28 seats in the National Executive Committee, elect 93 of Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed to the original aims for which Keir...
...Crimson salts have just launched a campaign to attract kindred spirits to their organization. Notable among its present subscribers are its adviser, Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar, who is "an avid angler," and Charles Taylor, Master of Kirkland House, who takes a "casual" interest in the sport...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...