Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxious to learn the reaction of business here toward Roosevelt's gestures toward your business. I think there's a good deal of 'I won't play' among your businessmen, and we do hope business here gets over that attitude. . . . You should remember that the personality of your President is not an argument. It has only an artistic or emotional bearing...
...inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed in 1936, was glad to join Mr. Dies. They got their resolution passed-but when the committee was picked, angry Sam Dickstein was left...
...brass hats will be in charge of the whole resources of the country," howled Laborite Aneurin Bevan last week. Two days later, with His Majesty's Loyal Opposition still peppering Sir Thomas, the Prime Minister himself was forced onto the floor to try to make the anxious M. P.s believe that no plan for compulsory non-military or industrial service has been made...
...months ago she boldly barged into a Hyde Park meeting for supporters of Leftist Spain wearing her badge, had to be rescued by London bobbies. Last week she incensed the Czechs by strolling the streets of Prague, swastika in her lapel. Display of the Nazi badge is forbidden. Anxious Prague police asked the British Legation to induce Unity to keep her badge out of sight "for her own safety...
...campaign manager of Governor "Happy" Chandler of Kentucky (a candidate this year for Barkley's Senate seat) had published a letter to President Roosevelt in which he charged, with affidavits to match, that WPA jobs in Kentucky were only for Barkley voters. Said Mr. Barkley, specially anxious to quell the storm of poll-priming indignation...