Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt does anything to curb the flow of foreign investment, he may make some informal agreement with Europe whereby some of the European earnings from investment here will be applied to settle the war-debt account. At present European governments, for various purposes, are anxious to tap the abundant reserves of American capital and seek new loans from Washington and Wall Street...
...necessary for me to go to Detroit," said Madam Secretary Perkins, looking anxiously down her nose. Cause of her anxiety was an all-night fracas between police and strikers in the General Motors strike at Flint, Mich, which had sent a score of casualties to the hospital (TIME, Jan. 18). Not anxious but indignant was Strike Leader Homer Martin who had flown to Washington. Said he: "The blood-spilling in Flint by hired Hessians of General Motors is a demonstration of what Mr. Alfred Sloan means by collective bargaining." Newshawks on the scene, however, confirmed General Motors' contention that...
...industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves content with their lot, anxious to keep on working. President Martin cried "vigilantes" at the Flint Alliance, denounced Leader Boysen as a onetime G. M. paymaster, accused G. M. of obtaining the petition signatures by intimidation, promised to complain to the National Labor Relations Board. But that many a G. M. worker hated & feared the union...
...when his pardon arrives. Prison officials shriek the news at him. Eddie Taylor thinks their statement is a trick for his recapture. Too vivid in his mind is the manner in which he, innocent, was railroaded into his present plight. When the chaplain comes toward him in the fog, anxious to convince him that the pardon is authentic, Eddie shoots him. The chaplain stays on his feet long enough to call, "I'm not hit. Open the gates." Thus is the structure-laid for a crescendo seldom excelled in hoodlum stories since Public Enemy. Within its tighter limits...
When the Daugherty threat grew serious the embattled Ochsner wives formed a united front, agreed among themselves on an intramural settlement. Wife No. i, anxious to see that her husband's children were taken care of even if they were not her own, was satisfied with 10% the family's share. Wife No. 2 took with another 20% each for her two children. Wife No. 3 got 25% with another 20% for her child. Though several suits are still pending by outsiders, San Francisco's Judge Frank H. Dunne last week decided that it was high time...