Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conducted by the police for Tammany, Mayor O'Brien had made a poor showing. The chances of Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee, last year's able and economical Acting Mayor, against Fusionist La Guardia in the November elections appeared considerably better than O'Brien's. Anxious lest a Fusion victory in New York weaken the state ticket in 1934, the national ticket in 1936, Boss Farley went to New York for the weekend and into a deep huddle with Boss Flynn. A laconic announcement from Washington that "the President is giving no approval to any local...
...what it is by virtue of his realization that books should be a criticism of life. Most of the Harvard faculty seem to go on the working assumption that life is the criticism of books. Having endured the attrition of English and American teaching in literature, Matthiessen is anxious to do something better than most of it. And in his courses he is succeeding in this...
...last month by the American Federation of Teachers. It was rejected on the ground that teachers are government employes. Nevertheless Commissioner Zook cautiously announced that the Office of Education is studying the "implications" of a code, with some recommendations to NRA in view. Meanwhile pedagogs were ostentatiously anxious to help NRA by expounding it in the classrooms. The National Education Association, which works hand-in-glove with the Office of Education, announced a program by which teachers would re-interpret textbooks, explaining to children why such maxims as "Competition is the life of trade" and "A penny saved...
...that they were doomed to endless calamity until Mkwawa's skull was returned to them The Britons who tried to rule them bribed the tribal chiefs into loyalty. But without the skull, the chiefs lost all prestige and power among their people. Meanwhile the German Government, not particularly anxious to help British rule in what had once been Germany's great African colony, denied that it had ever removed the skull from East African territory Last week came evidence that Germany had not lied, in a letter to The East African Standard from H. Malcolm Ross, British land...
...last week Protestants and Catholics alike were anxious to hear more about the Harmonian Sisterhood-first interdenominational convent ever founded. Where was it in Rhode Island? How many sisters were there? What rule of life had they adopted...