Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brisk to the point of confession, Fog Over Frisco is not the best of Director William Dieterle's pictures. Typical shot: Bette Davis begging her anxious fiance to tolerate just one more swindle...
...daily and Sunday newspapers, ranks close behind the Gumps and Dick Tracy as top circulation pullers for the Tribune Syndicate, earns her creator close to $100,000 a year. In Chicago she won first place in a popularity survey among housewives. Last week Orphan Annie was being read by anxious millions, because of Daddy Warbucks. Few months ago Daddy began to worry about his business-never identified but so prodigious as to require frequent telephone calls to Singapore, Shanghai, Australia. Soon he was faced with the choice of liquidating his affairs and retiring on a pittance, or selling stock...
Five years ago the Federal judges of the southern district of New York, anxious to stop greedy Manhattan lawyers from bleeding bankrupt firms, decided to make Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. receiver in all bankruptcy cases. So well did the trust company handle this new business that it won nothing but praise from the Federal court and the public-and nothing but bitter condemnation from local attorneys who had lost a lucrative practice. Twice they carried a fight to the State Legislature to forbid Irving Trust acting as receiver; twice bills to that effect were passed and twice vetoed...
...seems to be touch and go as to whether the forces making for recovery are likely to be permanent or transitory. Yet no thinking citizen can feel at heart otherwise than sympathetic to the demands of workers, coming, as they do, when prices are rising rapidly, and employers are anxious to keep down costs, of which wages are one of the largest items, in order to recoup themselves for the loses they have suffered during the last few years...
However his may be, University men will probably welcome the opportunity to express their general reaction to the New Deal. As the generation which will shortly be entering the market place and taking up the direction of affairs as their elders relinquish control, they are naturally anxious to see that their heritage shall not turn out to be a mess of pottage. They are the ones on whom will rest in large measure the burden of paying the freight on the post-war joy ride and the subsequent smash; and whatever follies may have been or are likely...