Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is probably the clearest exposition of practical Socialism that has yet been written, and, if the theory is overcharged with idealism, it is also permeated with lofty and religious concern for the welfare of humanity which claims for it a fair hearing...
...Diplomatic service now is conducted as nearly on the merit system as any human organization can be. Young men who enter can be reasonably sure that they will have the same opportunity to show their stuff that they would have in some business concern. The only branch in which the merit system is not exclusively employed is in the appointment of heads of mission. In this regard, the President still keeps his right to reward prominent men at home with ministerial or ambassadorial appointments abroad, but at the same time he has not disregarded the capable men who have risen...
Since the de jure recognition of Soviet Russia, the activities of the pyeterde have caused concern, as possibly prejudicial in the good relations of Russia and France. But the Qual d'Orsay, has wlsoly concluded not to interfere let him alone." they say. "It arises...
...argument tonight will concern the validity of the defendant's title to a certain bond...
...attack on Premier MacDonald, demanded: "What became of all these lofty lectures from the Socialists about the unfairness and immorality of rent and interest when they say, at the first opportunity, that the Prime Minister did not hesitate to become an important shareholder in a great manufacturing concern con- nected with the food of the people...