Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confident that my governments throughout the British Commonwealth will exert themselves to the uttermost to secure the largest possible measure of general disarmament, and their endeavors will be greatly assisted by your wholehearted support and prayers. I pray that Divine guidance may be with those who, in these anxious days, bear the great responsibility of directing the affairs of our own and of other nations...
Tammany Hall, in offering two candidates for the position of sheriff lately held by Thomas A. Farley seems more anxious than usual to get control of an office and less confident of doing so. The last incumbent, who was asked to resign as a result of the Seabury investigation, was a son of the Tiger and by the appearance of his bank account, no idle son. Whom Roosevelt will choose to succeed him is, therefore, a matter of grave concern...
...bank credit, another move to quiet public alarm, restore confidence in banks and bring hoarded money out of hiding. Secretary Mills thought it would stop all further bank failures. Wall Street, as indicated by the stock rise, looked upon it as currency inflation which might turn the tide. Most anxious bankers hailed it as the "most constructive step" yet taken in the Depression. Conservative Republican Senators, shying away from its inflationary aspect, played down the printing press idea for political reasons, guessed that the Reserve Board might after all have no occasion actually to expand the currency...
...final objective series with Yale which opens on February 27 at New Haven, the Harvard hockey team entrains today for Hanover, New Hampshire where it will conclude an exchange series with Dartmouth's Indians. Last week the Crimson collected a 5 to 2 win from the Hanoverians after several anxious moments; the Big Green victory less so far this season rushed in to a temporary lead in the first period, startling the spectators with a fierce attack and rugged defensive tactics...
Last week Franklin Delano Roosevelt, like Newton Diehl Baker the week before, turned thumbs down on the League of Nations. Plain to all now was the fact that Democratic candidates for the Presidency were desperately anxious to let this ghostly old issue lie buried in its political grave throughout...