Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Planter Peacher, who now serves as city marshal of Earle, went on trial at Jonesboro before Federal Judge John E. Martineau, onetime Arkansas Governor, and a jury of twelve whites. On hand as a special representative of Attorney General Cummings, who was anxious to secure a conviction in the face of complaints from the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union against the usual calibre of Arkansas justice, was Brien McMahon, assistant U. S. attorney general in charge of the criminal division. As Planter Peacher sat sneeringly confident of acquittal, Prosecutor McMahon and his assistants presented the Government...
...British Mothers Union, of which Queen Mary is a patroness, was reported by the New York Times to have adopted last week in its 13,000 branches (membership: 577,000) an attitude of "anxious concern." The Pauline Revere who is at tempting to spread news of the King & Mrs. Simpson among organized British Mothers was identified as Mrs. Frank Theodore Woods, widow of the Bishop of Winchester, who resides at Hampton Court in an apartment at the disposal of King Edward. In the circumstances His Majesty is unlikely to turn Mrs. Woods out of Hampton Court, and she was reported...
...action in this "hour of his vast reverses." The situation as he saw it was roughly as follows : The Allies, under Tsar Alexander, had taken Paris almost to their own surprise, were uneasy about controlling a city of 750,000, undecided between the Bourbons and Napoleon's son, anxious to avoid an unpopular move. So long as the French Army seemed solidly for Napoleon or his heir, they would avoid a showdown. The Sixth Corps of the French Army, under the square-faced, conscientious, devoted Duke of Ragusa, was at Essonnes, close to Paris. Caulaincourt therefore was to inform...
...gulls' plight was certainly not the fault of Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady. All week he labored to bring the striking seamen to terms with their employers. He got no results, but there was peace along the Pacific waterfronts because the strikers, anxious to prevent any excuse for armed intervention, had their own patrols keeping order and rounding up drunks. There was peace also because the Attorney General's office in Washington found legal reasons to excuse the U. S. Marshal in Los Angeles for ignoring a court order to unload some 4,000 stems...
...false ideas about the Harvard team which it will play Saturday in Cambridge. The Crimson's slaughter of Virginia last week gave coaches, players, and rooters all an idea of the opposition which they will meet in their final game before the all-important contest with Army. Navy is anxious to win and thus even the series which started with two games almost thirty years ago, but no one has any expectations of other than the hardest kind of battle. The starting lineup will be, in the main, the one which played the greater part of the Notre Dame game...