Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leader in the White House had become a national hero. While still retaining the conservative South, the Party captivated North and West with a new brand of social reform and economic experiment. But, more important from a purely political standpoint, the Democratic party had become a going concern of tremendous proportions. Its machines in the North had been given new power (see p. 13) and the long disused national machinery, lubricated with Federal patronage and supercharged with fuel from the Federal treasury, had got up enough steam so that, barring major misfortunes, it was certain to go thundering down...
...been cleared away Daniel W. Bell. Acting Budget Director, was called in. They were closeted until 4 p. m. Three days later the conference of three was repeated, morning and afternoon. Among the first things a new Congress needs is a budget and that was the President's prime concern last week...
...purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment when Depression...
...down an unwritten decision granting the demurrer on the grounds that Mr. Belcher was being deprived of his property without due process of law, that the Recovery Act unlawfully delegated judicial and legislative powers to the President, that the lumber business is an intrastate affair and therefore no Federal concern...
...novel without a hero. The Executioner Waits is a modern tragedy in the most present sense: its changing choruses are spoken by and for plain people, in terms as actual as last week's events. But Author Herbst is no journalistic realist, no pamphleteer of Communism. Her concern for her characters is never political or moral: she never justifies or reviles them except through their own mouths and for their own private ends. Her objectivity results in a total effect almost alarmingly potent. Though her method eschews purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death...