Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unimportant appropriation bill lay on the President's desk, a bill to provide funds for the Communications Commission. He put his signature to it and then had a press release issued commenting on the event. The release did not concern the bill itself but an amendment tagged on it by Congress: a caboose setting forward from July i to April i the date for restoring the last 5% of the 15% Federal pay-cut made...
When Harvard students, as representatives of a sex noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean...
...restore prosperity by egregious expenditure. It is said glibly that this puts the burden on the taxpayer of the future. Beyond very grave doubts whether any expenditure can be transferred to the future for payment, the amount of deficit that the country can stand now is of some concern. Everyone is agreed that there is a limit. Scales have been broken heretofore by being overweighted. We should realize that the abstract definition of the lexicon, "equilibrium, steadiness, stability" is there because it has concrete, practical applications...
Comparing Reedsville with a new industry, Mrs. Roosevelt declared the experimental losses justified in view of their value to succeeding projects. However, concluded the First Lady, financial matters were really no concern of hers...
...announcement by President Conant, in an address to the New York Economic Club, that Harvard is undertaking a three-year program of graduate work in social science problems for the purpose of training men interested in public service will be music to the oars of many who have felt concern over the University's seeming lack of interest in affairs political. "The Department of Government," President Conant said, "in cooperation with the departments of History, Economics and Sociology and the Law School, is inaugurating a three-year program of graduate study for a small group of carefully selected...