Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff in efforts to get him to say that, even if France did NOT aid Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union would do so anyhow. In a very long speech Commissar Litvinoff went no further than to divulge that the Red Army Staff had recently been anxious to join the French & British Army Staffs in conversations about how joint action could be taken against Germany. Although repeatedly complaining that the Red Army had not been invited to sit in, the Soviet Commissar answered at no time during the week the crucial question of whether Czechoslovakia, if attacked...
With war-worried European nations anxious to stock their coffers with all the gold they can lay hands on, French police were especially chagrined last week, when, from under their very noses, bandits got away with $1,890,000 in gold, the largest haul in French criminal history. The gold, being shipped to a Belgian smelting plant from the Belgian Congo, was unceremoniously stowed aboard an ordinary freight train northbound from Marseille one night last week. Few miles outside the city, the train's emergency brakes were jammed on. As trainmen and guards swung down to investigate, six masked...
McLaughry has said that he will concentrate his defensive drills against Harlow's passes and open football, but it seems more likely that Harvard will pull through without using much razzle-dazzle and relying mainly on straight line crushing. Harlow is not anxious to demonstrate too much trickery for the benefit of Cornell, Army, and Dartmouth scouts, who will unquestionable appear in force...
...world anxious for peace must turn from Hitler's time-worn protestations to England's belatedly firm stand. Britain's unequivocal warning that she will fight if Hitler marches may shunt the Sudeten crises back to the channels of discussion and conciliation. If so, it may prove to be the first effective caveat to Fascism and permit us to hope that the victory of democracy is really coming...
...State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A. membership carried, and the union found itself in the dreamlike position of being able to pick and choose which shows it would deign to organize...