Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are to be captives in the White House, Mr. Lewis is ready to join the hunt: "Anxious for more and immediate gains for labor, he would like to see a President elected by a partnership of labor, the middle class, liberals and the farmers. He is thus interested in the possible formation of a bloc which can control the Democratic party; or failing that, a new liberal or progressive party rather than a labor party. His own candidacy for the Presidency, if it comes about in 1940, would be with Lewis a second choice. He would rather back...
Every man who ever fumed about the phone bill had reason last week to be pleased. Every man accustomed to getting $9 a share in annual dividends on his American Telephone & Telegraph Co. common stock had reason to be anxious. For, in the most far-reaching and drastic report of its kind ever submitted to Congress, Federal Communications Commissioner Paul Walker recommended that telephone rates be cut 25%, and that FCC be given more absolute control over A. T. & T. than any Government agency has ever held over any U. S. industry except in time...
Protesting Westporters, preferring rural quiet to culture and glory, feared that their "simple" village would be turned into a Connecticut Coney Island instead of an American Salzburg. "We don't want to be the Salzburg of America," declared one anxious Westporter. "We want to die in peace...
...that a Congressional investigation of TVA is now certain, once more refused to answer Presidential questions, Franklin Roosevelt with a great show of forbearance extended the hearing another three days. When three days later Mr. Morgan reaffirmed his determination not to let the President rush in where Congress was anxious to tread, Franklin Roosevelt, who can be as bull-headed as anyone else, laid down his ultimatum, announced that if the Chairman would not agree to cooperate with his inquiry with-in 24 hours he must either resign or face suspension...
...German Foreign Minister agreed to transmit most anxious British warnings to Adolf Hitler, and then Ribbentrop with Chamberlain and Halifax joined the ladies. Later in the day Der Führer. who was holding his secret Privy Council on Foreign Affairs in continuous session at Berlin as German military radio flashed moment-by-moment technical details of the troop movements, was waited upon by the British & French Ambassadors with identical, very sharply-worded protests. But they were not accompanied by anyone representing Russia, or the U. S., or Italy, or Japan. An agonizing interval of many hours elapsed before incredulous...