Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire club, which at present numbers 150, has been organized into committees on Foreign relations and domestic issues. These committees, in turn, are divided into numerous sub-committees devoting intensive study to the separate issues included under the general heading of foreign relations and domestic issues. The club is anxious to obtain men of all political beliefs and interests. All men who may be interested are requested to write to G. W. Smith '29, secretary. The following political figures will address the club sometime during the next few months: Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway...
Power. After long debate, despite anxious protests from potent lobbyists, the Committee on Interstate Commerce voted that an inquisitor and four aides should proceed, as urged by Inquisitor Walsh, to explore the character and practices of light, gas and power corporations doing interstate business or controlled by holding corporations in other states. Political as well as financial practices were in Inquisitor Walsh's mind, "to determine whether these have been other Insulls." Many a State's attitude toward the impending Power Probe was voiced by Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, who said: "The people of Ohio will...
...occasions in past years tonight's opponents have clashed. Twice Harvard has humbled the visitors, but in 1909, on the Stadium rink, the Nova Scotians triumphed by 3 to 1. Tonight, while Harvard will be striving to maintain its excellent promise of the early season, the Canadians will be anxious, to register a victory after a 19-year wait for the taste of triumph...
...ordinary canons of procedure would apply. This meant that any session could be made secret by a two thirds vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure which would prevent, for example, loud squabbles between those embittered rivals Chile and Peru...
...week, the grave "differences" to which he referred: 1) The high French import duties upon U. S. goods have been lowered only provisionally and await final negotiations; 2) The Briand-Kellog conversations looking to a peace pact have virtually deadlocked although Mr. Herrick himself said, last week: "I am anxious to see negotiations for a lasting pact with France outlawing war completed as soon as possible"; 3) the Franco-U. S. debt funding agreement is still unratified by France, a fact which Mr. Herrick tactfully dismissed, in speaking to French correspondents. Said he: "You do not hear anyone mention that...