Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington, "blue law" booster, is having trouble with A. Scott Bullitt, Wet and potent Democrat. Each candidate is anxious to have Senator "Jim" Reed investigate the other's campaign expenses. A Jones advocate cried last week: "If you can get President Coolidge to come out and tell the people of Washington State that he won't let Senator Jones close the moving picture houses on Sunday, I can promise you that the Senator will be re-elected...
President Coolidge, unable for a time to obtain authentic information, apparently suspected that indiscreet Republican bankers were casting aspersions upon Republican protectionism for their own nefarious ends. The President thereupon trenchantly reminded the nation that those who lend money are ever anxious for international free trade, but that the Republican party stands ready to defend those who earn money in the U. S. with its tariff shield...
Martyrs Rewarded. In Sept. 1792, the Bishops of Aries, of Beauvais, of Nantes, with priests, deacons, monks, nuns and some laymen of the Church, were butchered in French provincial prisons. This was by invitation of a circular letter, sent to outlying cities by the victorious Paris Commune, anxious to give impression of its strength before the pending election. Danton and Roland, concerned for their own heads, hinted disapproval but did not venture more. The list of victims, definitely though they had disappeared, was long lost, and the Roman Catholic Church remained uncertain of the claims of many to martyrdom...
...will be answered when Captain Coady's men step on the Stadium turf at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon to do battle with the William and Mary gridiron squad. The visitors from the south are smarting from a 35 to 0 defeat administered by Syracuse last week and are anxious to retrieve their 14 to 7 loss on Soldier's Field last season...
...principles of the Republican party. We are at present preoccupied with the coming election, but the future is equally, if not more important. Those who, like me for instance, feel that the Nation has had its greatest growth, its greatest accomplishment, its greatest prestige under Republican administrations are anxious to see these traditions perpetuated. This can only be done if the young voters of today understand and believe in these principles and appreciate their obligation to vote. To this we are bending our efforts...