Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very anxious to know . . ." sarcastically murmured Senator McNary, [whether] we are to follow the leadership of the Senator from Wisconsin. . . . I have felt since the capitulation [on the Court Bill], under the management of our able Vice President that we would probably adjourn ... by the fifth of August. ... I doubt that he [Senator La Follette] spoke the voice of the President...
Nine-tenths worn out by the Court struggle and Washington heat. Congressmen had so little inclination for attacking any new problems that the New Deal was reported anxious to postpone the revised Court Bill for fear that Congress would just lie down like a tired mule once it was disposed of. The result was something approaching a new deadlock, this time between the Presidential will and Congressional fatigue. There was some talk about adjournment and reconvening in October as a way out, but everybody except possibly the President and most ardent New Dealers was just a little too tired...
Franklin Roosevelt was still anxious to save face by keeping the nature of the settlement dark, and avoiding a roll call. Neither was possible that afternoon when the issue was settled on the floor of the Senate. Senator Logan who had sponsored the defeated bill was allowed to move to recommit it. Only 20 last-ditch fighters voted against him. Seventy other Senators jumped into the breach provided for them by John Nance Garner, to settle in an hour a profitless wrangle that had played havoc with public affairs for nearly six months...
Britain's new Cabinet, anxious to announce the terms of their decision to partition Palestine (TIME, July 12), met at No. 10 Downing Street last week in worried session over what might be the attitude of Benito Mussolini. Would Il Duce use his super-power radio station at Bari, which daily broadcasts in Arabic to the natives of the Near East, as an engine of propaganda to stir up the tribes and wreck partition? Would Bari even broadcast in Hebrew to stir up the Jews? During the Ethiopian crisis, Britain learned to her cost how much trouble the Bari...
...third of the population of the six counties already are anxious to join with us and if you can get another one-sixth of the whole population of the six counties to support the idea of unity of Ireland, then you will have a majority for the unity of Ireland. When we have got that majority the problem of the unity of the country will be solved. . . . There has been no question of force in regard to the six counties. We recognize it would be a distasteful task and one which probably would not succeed and which ultimately...