Word: alert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formidable did the Garner economy bloc appear last week that alert little David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) sounded an alarm, called for "the angry voice of the people" to halt "the reckless plans of Garner and his clique...
...seasoned promoter who helped put together Montana Power Co., Banker Myers was discovered by James Delmage Ross when that alert public utilitarian was trying to raise money for the municipal system he managed in Seattle. After Mr. Ross was turned down by PWA and cold-shouldered by bigtime financiers, Mr. Myers raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville...
...planner, he might devise ways-in cahoots with his trust-busting fellow Janizary, Robert Houghwout Jackson, who seems likely to succeed Attorney-General Homer Cummings in January-of fastening new Federal controls upon Business. An entirely different view was expressed by Journalist David Lawrence, one of Business' most alert and alarmable servants. He wrote...
...steel-helmeted Mobile Guards to take away from alien workmen their permits to work in France, telling them on Saturday that if they came back to work Monday and showed a disposition to work Wednesday (General Strike Day), they would get back their cards Monday; 3) put on the alert the General Staff, the Army and all engines by which the State might reasonably expect to crush (in blood, if it should come to that) the scheduled General Strike...
Baby Annabelle was taken to Children's Hospital, and found normal. "She has no concept of spoken words," said Miss Mason, "but she is apparently alert to sounds." Her education will proceed slowly, will start with associations between objects and words. Miss Mason hopes that within two years Annabelle will have her legs straightened, attend school like any other normal child...