Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, just before the new Parliament met and Premier Sarraut hastened to make way for M. Blum, that anxious old gentleman warned a Socialist Party congress that extreme Left sabotage would invite a Fascist triumph. Said he: "Some people say that ours will be a Kerensky government, that it will be working to prepare the way for a Lenin, who will be the one to benefit. That is not so. In France, if some Kerensky were to fail, it would not be a Lenin who would be the beneficiary...
...Governor's Social Security program to pass a hostile State Assembly last fortnight had directed his decision. Explanation most widely accepted was that the death last fortnight of his brother Arthur (TIME, May 25), preceded by the recent deaths of his nephew and sister, made him anxious to get back to his family and the potent family firm of Lehman Brothers. Whatever the reason. Democrats made no attempt to pooh-pooh their loss. From 1929 to 1933 as Lieutenant Governor, Herbert Lehman was Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's "good right arm," performing the duties of Governor for long...
...Blum was most anxious to entice Radical Socialist (Conservative) Edouard Herriot into his Cabinet as Foreign Minister. Yet all his cajolery last week could not get a "Yes" out of the man the Socialists had helped to vote out of the Premiership in 1932 because he wanted to pay the War Debt to the U. S. M. Blum is not likely to become his own Foreign Minister as he believes the Premier should hold no Cabinet portfolio. Meantime M. Blum was busy promulgating the means by which he expects to guarantee France peace & power in Europe: a six-sided mutual...
...grain and money gifts to Mecca. The valuable Egyptian pilgrim traffic to Mecca fell off sharply. Last month, just before King Fuad died, King Ibn Saud maneuvered Egypt's then Premier Aly Maher Pasha into new negotiations between Egypt and Saudi Arabia. From his deathbed Fuad, also anxious to patch the quarrel since he still hoped to be named Caliph of all Islam,* fostered the secret negotiations...
...more, but however much a man may be compounded of ideals, the practical aspects have some appeal, particularly when account is taken of the sacrifices often involved. It is knowledge, or rather a larger, even if not conclusive, consideration of this topic that most embryo graduate students are especially anxious to discover...