Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court plainly indicated that the National Labor Relations Board had made the same mistake in cases against Ford Motor Co., Republic Steel and Inland Steel, several others. Anxious to stem the tide of criticism and court maneuver thus engendered, an NLRB spokesman last week disclosed that in these cases the board had relied upon a Supreme Court finding two years ago. This was at the time that the case passed upon last fortnight was heard and remanded for retrial to a lower court. Ruled the Supreme Court, on May 25, 1936: "While it would have been good practice to have...
Belgium's handsome young widower King Leopold III once figured in the schemes of certain statesmen anxious for a union of Belgium and The Netherlands, eager to promote it by securing the marriage of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Neither Leopold nor Juliana saw the matter in this light, but they are on the best of terms. Last week His Majesty accepted the invitation of Her Royal Highness to act as a godfather at the christening of her first child. Princess Beatrix, this week in The Hague...
...naval agreement was a symbolic victory for "Dev." In securing the removal of the last British sailors and marines on Irish soil he won a concession that Britain refused to yield to Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith, Irish negotiators in 1921. Downing Street has long been anxious over the prospect of an unfriendly Eire at England's back in time of war. Last week's accord gained for Britain Irish goodwill, assured her of easy access to vital supplies from agricultural Eire in wartime. While the treaty made no commitments regarding Irish defenses, it is expected that Britain...
Distribution in the Freshman and Sophomore years is an excellent plan, and one essential to a well-rounded education, but such a curriculum cannot be imposed at the expense of interest and initiative. If general courses are to be retained, it must be with instructors who are at once anxious and able to teach and to provoke student thought. Theirs is a task infinitely more complex than that of the school-room lecturer, for they are initiating the student into a world full of contradictions and injustices, and in so doing are giving him a social viewpoint he will carry...
...under way last week and Owner Ruppert still refused to budge a dollar, Junior Di Maggio suddenly realized that he was not only losing $162 for every day he was missing from the Yankee line-up but was losing face with his teammates and his public as well. Anxious to have a high mark in Conduct as well as in Homeruns, 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio finally capitulated, wired Owner Ruppert his surrender...