Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twoscore Army posts throughout the land last week found themselves on the defensive, fighting for their political lives. Anxious to economize for deficit reasons, President Hoover had picked the Army as his first big target (TIME, May 18). He knew he could not reduce the fighting force below its 118,000 men without encountering violent public objections. He did not want to retrench on river & harbor improvements and flood control because they were essentials of his Unemployment relief program. Therefore he selected as the most likely bull's-eye for economy some of the Army's 340 forts...
...have given to the Fund thus far this year. This is less than the number of men in the class of 1930 who had contributed to the Fund at this time last May. Although the fiscal year of the Fund does not end until December 31, the Council is anxious that all Seniors who intend to give should do so before Commencement. The second letter of appeal from T. W. Dunn '31, the Senior Class Agent, was mailed to the Class on May 12. The total amount contributed by the Seniors thus...
Softly Mr. Pei next breathed a threat that if Occidental countries do not cooperate with China in rehabilitating silver she may retaliate by an embargo against all silver imports. Today China buys more silver than any other country, and the Occident is anxious to sell. But Threatener Pei hastily added that China is still open, wide open, to any and all favorable offers. These he proposed to crystallize by calling under I. C. C. auspices an International Silver Conference later this year. In 48 hours this Pei plan was whipped into shape?Senator King of Utah (silver State) aiding?...
...Anxious to secure freight at Vancouver, the C. P. R. early in its history chartered three ocean liners. Now its fleet of steamers carries the checkered C. P. R. house flag over Atlantic and Pacific, sometimes around the world. Greatest of the "White Empresses of the Pacific" is Empress of Japan. Greatest on the St. Lawrence-Europe route will soon be Empress of Britain, launched last summer. The ocean-going going and coastal fleet of C. P. R. numbers 57 vessels with a gross tonnage of 468,717. Its inland lake and river fleet has 20 ships...
...Anxious to give business a stimulant, last week the directors of Federal Reserve Bank of New York slashed its rediscount rate from 2% (where it had stood since Dec. 24) to 1½% Money eased throughout the land.* The immediate aim and probable result was to aid England which has been losing gold to the U. S. Over a longer period, agreed bankers last week, it should encourage foreign financing in the U. S., likewise issues by domestic companies. Yet last week the state of U. S. business was such that no sudden demand for funds was expected, no immediate...