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Word: anxious (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers' hands, took a last look into their five anxious faces (see cut), promised to ponder his decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Five Mothers | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Hero Lindbergh's friends in Berlin have indeed given him rare chances to look with a knowing eye at German armaments and more important, into the laboratories where German researchers find new ways to build and kill. Hitler & Co. being anxious to frighten Great Britain and France before Munich, it is more than likely that his reports on German air strength which repolished his reputation last week were the same which helped to tarnish it a few weeks earlier. Certainly the German Government knew, if the U. S. public had forgotten, that Colonel Lindbergh is still an officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Listen! The Wind! | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...wastes near White Horse, Pilot Sheldon Loucke's eye was caught by an unusual tangle of tracks in the snow near an isolated cabin. Circling down, he saw that they spelled out HELP. Pilot Loucke picked a spot, brought his ski-shod airplane down near the cabin. The anxious wife of a trapper laid low by blood poisoning had tramped out the words. A few hours later the trapper was in the hospital at White Horse, last week was reported recovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: H-E-L-P | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Ready for Senators' anxious inspection when they returned to their desks this week was a 65-page report, plus 379 pages of documentary evidence, from Chairman Sheppard's Senatorial Campaign Investigating Committee. After long weeks of probing and the expenditure of $54,000 (out of $80,000 appropriated), the Committee came out with little more than the statement that there had been "unjustifiable political activity in connection with the work of the WPA in several States." The Committee did not attack Harry Hopkins' WPAdministration except to call Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams' famed "Keep your friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Sheppard Report | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...have irked him sorely. He has fast friends and respectful admirers in both Houses. Since the Republican swing last fall, which weakened the Democratic party in local affairs* and made the Administration's majorities in Congress vulnerable to future coalitions of conservative Democrats and Republicans, John Garner is anxious not to have orders from the White House split the Democratic majorities in Congress. To avoid this, Democrats in Congress will have to provide their own leadership. If they need a leader, John Garner stood ready to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Up Garner | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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