Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking on economic questions is most heartily to be welcomed. It is, for instance, refreshing to hear some one deal with the subject of purchasing power without falling into the loose talk so characteristic of newspaper and magazine articles and political speeches. Professor Chamberlin yet the government itself is anxious that business shall be reassured, that capital shall have a chance to earn a fair return and that the volume of transactions may increase and more people shall be employed...
...answer to the dilemma is that everybody is anxious to get his own house in order, every industry and business is eager to get itself on an earning basis, but there are few who see the whole picture from the broad perspective of the National Government itself. If it were possible to do national planning in which every business would fit nicely into the groove set for it, there would be no problem. But economic adjustments are bewildering and baffling. Conditions change every day and government regulations and laws play a vital part nowadays in bringing about those very changes...
...astonished officers of Continental Illinois rushed excitedly into one another's offices, consulted by telephone with their directors. For two days every banker who had sold preferred stock to the RFC sat on the anxious bench. In Washington Mr. Cummings said he could not talk till he heard from Chicago. In Chicago ostensibly to attend a banquet, Jesse Jones professed to "know nothing about it." declared that his RFC would not interfere with banks whose present management was "satisfactory...
...particularly anxious to give a stirrup-cup to the political theory of the Nationalist order of things. The happy result of this emphasis on things theoretical is that the Fascist reader can contentedly describe the volume as bunk, the internationally minded Socialist can contentedly read about the development of a world "communal organization", and the old school liberal can contentedly pore over an internationalism based on natural law and democracy. Even the critic can contentedly point to inconsistencies like the building up of an analogy between the individual citizen under municipal law and the individual state under international law, which...
...Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow hung up the telephone in her Englewood, N. J. home one evening last week and sat down with an anxious smile. She had just heard a man in the Manhattan office of Pan American Airways read her the following message: "DEPARTED BATHURST 0202 GREENWICH EVERYTHING OK KHCAL...