Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago not only the foreign Press but hundreds of intelligent observers in Germany honestly believed that the Junker Government of General von Schleicher and Col. von Papen had definitely ended the growth of Hitlerism in Germany. Anxious not to repeat the same mistake, observers have this year watched the fight of little Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria against Naziism with marked scepticism. They know that Austria's 6,500,000 are still nearly 50% pro-Nazi. They know that as a matter of prestige Adolf Hitler, who once roamed the streets of Vienna hungry, is willing to spend time...
Last week in Washington the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and the Blue Eagle came to final terms. A. N. P. A.'s President Howard Davis, anxious to end four weeks of wrangling, submitted a "temporary" code by which publishers could officially receive their eagles, got it approved by Administrator Johnson pending a hearing. It stipulated that publishers would not be bound by any requirements which might impair the Freedom of the Press, thus quieting a controversy raised by newspapermen who feared the licensing powers of NRA. It included (but left for future discussion) settlement of a second controversial...
Unfortunately a number who went to the Observatory Thursday to see stars were sadly disappointed by the overcast skies. One eager maiden anxious not to miss the wonders of the heavens took a taxi in the Square directing the driver to the Harvard Observatory. "Hurry." Evidently the driver thought she was a budding Annie J. Cannon and set off on a thirty-mile drive to the Blue Ridge Observatory at Harvard, Mass. As soon as the meter read over $2.00, the astrophile began to wonder, but the fare was $5.40 from the Square to Bond Street...
Since March 4 President Roosevelt has been closely watched on his treatment of the Foreign Service. Would he, asked its anxious members, replace career men with a horde of deserving Democratic politicians who would have to learn their jobs from the ground up? Or would he equal President Hoover's record for giving professional diplomats an even break on appointments? After last week's shufflings it was apparent that the new President could be counted a true friend of the regular Foreign Service...
...break down the ideals by lending the front page of your publication to such men. . . . You have done more to stir the feelings of extreme bitterness with this one gesture of yours than has been accomplished in this country by any publication since the Civil War. I am still anxious to have your explanation, as I have no desire to do you an injustice. EDMUND WATERMAN New York City