Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worked in all the departments of his father's bank, served in the Y. M. C. A. during the War. Of this obscurity Banker Rand quickly divested himself. That year he became assistant secretary of The Marine Trust Co., the next year vice president. In 1921, anxious to show he could do something for himself besides running his father's bank, Mr. Rand with some young friends acquired an interest in the Buffalo Trust Co. He was made president, soon opened many branch offices, piled up resources at a terrific clip. In 1926 the Buffalo Trust and the Marine Trust...
German editors last week reminded their readers that agents of Der Konsul were once not only accustomed to throw bombs and assassinate their political opponents, but also did not hesitate to slit the gullet of any of its own members who were "untrustworthy." Anxious to wipe out Der Konsul once and for all, German police arrested 40 suspects last week. Members of the German Reichstag, behind hastily reglazed windows, prepared to vote heavier penalties for persons "guilty of offenses against the security of the Republic...
...Borah, and the Democrats, were agreed that they wanted tax reports made available - as am munition. The tax reports will show what profits numbers of businesses have made under present tariff duties. When it came to the question of confining the tariff to agriculture, the Democrats became anxious about defections from their ranks. They were just as uneasy about voting on specific tariff rates. In fact every one was a little uneasy. So with many whisperings behind the scenes it was agreed that the prolog should be not tariff, but administration of the tariff. In other words, the Senators will...
Marshal Joseph Jacques Cesare Joffre left Paris for Evian-les-Baines, health resort. To anxious friends he explained he was going not for himself but because his wife was taking a cure for rheumatism...
Because he was the only uneliminated Britisher, attention in the open was naturally focussed last week on Irish Capt. Roark of the Hurricanes, whose team had gained the finals by its single victory. British sportsmen, dismayed by the fate of Eastcott, more anxious than cocky U. S. prognosticators, awaited news of the encounter of Roark and Hitchcock in the final chukkers of the Open Championship. Despite his successive defeats, friends of Soldier-Poloist Tremayne insist that he is not one to quail before enemy fire; that he will next year return to competition...