Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spot. As he went from polling place to polling place, mopping his bald dome in the unseasonable November heat, telegrams dated New York City and signed with his name were being delivered to worthy Haverstraw Democrats even as he shook hands with them. Brother Jim was "particularly anxious" to see the local Democratic candidate for the State Assembly elected. "All reports from Rockland County," said Boss Farley's message, "are most encouraging. . . . Please continue your efforts until the polls close and make results definite...
Definite they were. The Assembly candidate whom Jim Farley was "particularly anxious" to see win was trounced by Republican Laurens H. Hamilton, great-great-grandson of Alexander Hamilton and nephew of J. P. Morgan. Brother Tom, for whose success Brother Jim was equally if not so openly anxious, took a licking not from a Republican but from his anti-Farley rival. Bellowed Haverstraw Supervisor Shankey: "Against me I had the Postmaster General, the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee and I licked them all. Jim came here yesterday, visited every polling place...
...could the slightest confirmation be obtained, though in Mayfair some swank wits opined: "The reason Baldwin called our election so suddenly was that he was afraid the trouble with Italy might not last much longer." This frivolous view Italians could not take. From the King down they were nervous, anxious and resentful of Britain's jam-packing the Mediterranean with warships neither authorized nor requested by the League (TIME, Sept. 30). With patriotism boiling, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that he had switched...
...Tussaud, where the National Government may be seen in session any day, the dummies most definitely slated to disappear were those of Ramsay and Jim. With unction rich, Prime Minister Baldwin took it upon himself to tell Demos that it was not being Democratic. "I have been a little anxious as a Democrat," said the Tory Leader at Leeds, "that the right of free speech has been denied to my friend MacDonald. . . . This shouting down of people and refusing to hear arguments ... is more than stupid. It is bad." Demos continued, however, to boo Stanley's friend Ramsay...
...after the legislative session next spring, as he is now resolved to do. He sped south to Florida last week and friends considered that by Christmas the impulsive and emotional Mitch may find himself feeling so much better that he needs must carry on. Cried sprinting Minister Croll after anxious cogitation: "Mr. Hepburn can't quit! We won't let him." Assuming that he does quit, Hepburn, will return to his 600-acre cattle, onion and celery farm. There he was born and there at three years of age, according to his fond mother, he lisped, "I want...