Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 9: After luncheon a former secretary at the Rumanian court for several years told me he had heard that the Queen [Marie] of Rumania is most anxious to meet the President...
...Treasury Andrew-William Mellon, said she would not remarry but for convenience would again be known as Mrs. Mellon. "Now that Mr. Lee is no longer here," said she, ''there seems no reason for continuing the name. And, too, my son [Paul Mellon] is very anxious that I should take his name...
...departments and business. 2) To investigate the whole question of bankruptcy law and practice, to propose to Congress some essential reforms. 3) To study the practicability of a road from the U. S. to Alaska through and with the aid of Canada. Declared President Hoover: "To some who are anxious over the appointment of temporary committees and commissions . . . we may suggest they are not a new necessity in government. President Roosevelt created 107 of them, President Taft 63, President Wilson 160, President Harding 44, President Coolidge 118. . . . I shall appoint others." Hoover commissions to date...
...anxious Britons, expecting birth news from day to day, the child seemed long in coming. The Duchess of York's own 30th birthday, heralded by soothsayers as the probable moment, dawned uneventfully. Highly embarrassed, perspiring profusely, little John Robert Clynes who began life humbly in a workingman's cottage and is now Home Secretary of His Majesty's government, delayed his arrival at the castle almost as long as possible. Tradition demanded his presence in the anteroom of the Duchess' bedchamber at the moment of delivery to protect the public's rights, to see and certify that the baby, possible...
Though approval and enaction of a quota system did not seem immediately probable last week, U. S. motormakers, anxious to offset declining sales at home by expanding sales abroad, were worried by possible spreading of the tariff wall against cars and parts. And business conditions in Europe were another source of anxiety. Bearish items of the week included the dismissal of the entire production staff (600 men) from the Ford plant in Spain...