Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaped up the Pacific Coast to Portland where a general walkout was tentatively called for Wednesday. Portlanders got a foretaste of San Francisco's plight when its waterfront strike dammed fuel oil and gasoline supplies to a trickle. Buildings began stocking cordwood in their basements. Seattle kept an anxious eye on San Francisco. Fuel oil supplies were so low that in hotels and apartment houses hot water was curtailed. Many a filling station hung out the NO GAS sign. One ferry was converted to burn wood. But nonunion laborers continued to load cargoes, and Seattle had hopes that the conservative...
...this year, 14 behind his record year (1927). Lou Gehrig of the Yankees, who was expected to be leading homerun hitter as Ruth declined, was four behind Johnson. Last week in an exhibition game at Norfolk, Va. a pitched ball hit Gehrig on the head, knocked him unconscious. Anxious to maintain his record of playing in more consecutive games than any other player in major-league baseball history, Gehrig next day performed ably in his 1,415th...
...Ankara. The stronger the two nations become, the more firmly they knit bonds of Moslem unity across the Near and Middle East, the stronger will be Shah Riza's hand the next time he feels like tearing up an oil contract. Dictator Kemal for his part was anxious to talk Persian oil for the Turkish fleet. He was said in Ankara to have turned down British firms and ordered ten new Turkish cruisers built in-of all places -Japan. "The peoples of Islam are intensely admiring of the Japanese," said an Ankara official. "The Japanese have made themselves strong...
...newshawks in Rome put odds & ends together and came to this conclusion: William Randolph Hearst, anxious to have Miss Davies' portrait exhibited, offered to pay the shipping costs of the entire Whitney collection if the picture were included. Mrs. Force declined his offer. Thereupon Mr. Hearst sent the picture alone to Italy where a Hearstling approached U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long to see what could be done about having it exhibited in Venice. When Ambassador Long decided not to use his good offices in Mr. Hearst's behalf, the Hearst man went directly to Count Volpi, finally...
...rulers, with enough help so that they were able to carry on. . . ." The two necessary ingredients for Revolution, says Author Soule, are the ferment of ideas and the rise to power of a new class. In the U. S. both these ingredients are slowly in the making. To anxious readers who would like to know if the revolution will be violent when it comes. Analyzer Soule rejoins that revolutions in themselves are seldom violent. "Reigns of terror, civil war, revolutionary war. are conducted not to bring about revolution, but to preserve it." Only half-reassured, the anxious reader will then...