Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany in the later years when Lorraine was to became one of the major circus rings for their virtuosity. Their long experience made Biley almost a minor to them. When a military advance turned a "French" possession into a "German" one, the De Wendels need have felt no great concern. Regardless of the national tag attached to these mines and smellers, they remained in the placid control of one or the other branches of the family...
...drought and fair weather had hopelessly split the delegates. And Britain's Sir Herbert Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named...
...assembled governors of Japanese prefectures, chunky Vice Admiral Mineo Osumi, Minister of the Navy, demanded immediate increase in Japan's sea forces. "We appeal to your support for this program which is essential to protect Japan from her enemies," cried he. "The next naval conference will not concern the Navy alone, but may decide the destiny of the Empire. Japan must take this opportunity to free herself from unfavorable restrictions." In Geneva Japan pulled wires to force the withdrawal of Dr. Rajchman as financial adviser to China. Fearful of a show-down on Japan's new position...
...players from the Philadelphia Orchestra and four capable soloists (Soprano Ethyl Hayden, Contralto Rose Bampton, Tenor Dan Gridley, Basso Julius Huehn). But with all his display of energy Conductor Carey's interpretations were superficial. And the performances, often muddled and sluggish, gave Bethlehemites good cause for concern over their Bach supremacy. The conductor who presided over the May Festival at Ann Arbor last week was there for his 30th session. He looked old and stooped but his performances never lagged. When he came to the U. S., a violinist from the Cologne Orchestra in Germany, his first boss...
...after month. German heavy industries exported an average of 150,000 tons of scrap iron, steel, or barbed wire to Switzerland, where, having been smelted to a more convenient form, it was then transshipped to France. France, in her turn, shipped chemicals to the Lonza Co. (a Swiss industrial concern, German controlled, but with directors who were French, Italian, and Austrian as well) from which they reached munitions works in Germany. It was all very profitable--and the splendid war went...