Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rowdy a show as he has seen in his 28 years in Congress. The hearing room was jammed with Townsendites and other pension peddlers, for on the committee's schedule was no less a witness than Physician Francis E. Townsend himself. Far more unruly, however, were Congressmen anxious to outdo one another in doing for the old folks. Massachusetts' broadbeamed Republican Allen Treadway, whose State party leaders made an election alliance with the Townsendites, showed what was likely to happen when Congress receives the committee's report. Trying to shout down a group of Democrats, Republican Treadway...
...Sudeten deputies, met in Berlin's Kroll Opera House one night early this week to hear the address of Führer Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the sixth anniversary of Nazi rule. While Germans listened with pride at the recital of past Nazi victories, an anxious world combed the speech for cues as to what Nazi moves could be next expected...
...Pailthorpe-Mednikoff canvases were filled with these symbols. Some of them, such as safety pins, wheels and houses, were easily recognizable as childish carryovers. Others were less simple. Dr. Pailthorpe and Mr. Mednikoff were anxious to explain that this cockscomb meant that the little boy had killed his mother, and that that tree represented father chasing him around behind the house. Some of the symbols were obviously adult, obviously sexual...
Putting Senator Adams on a chilly spot did not finish the President's work. His secretariat sent out hundreds of letters to citizens anxious or angry about the cut. in which blame was heaped squarely upon Congress. One letter said: "The needs of WPA are very close to the President's heart...
...trade supremacy in Argentina threatened, Britain some time ago began to knobble U. S. competition. She reportedly "requested" Argentina not to use British sterling to balance her obligations to the U. S., and Argentina is anxious to keep the economic patronage of a nation which buys the largest share of her chief products, grains and meat. Three months ago Argentina went further, set up a rigid exchange control plan...