Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seven-day period beginning this week until all had reduced their hours from 40 to 35 by Jan. 1. "The company is taking this mandatory step in compliance with the new prohibition against work in this country," smirked a Ford spokesman. NRA officials in Washington did not hide their concern over this action. They said that while Mr. Ford may have had a legal right to reduce his payroll, it was a violation of the NRA spirit. General Johnson, surprised by Mr. Ford's sudden submission, said he would be glad to make an exception so that...
...newscameras with Secretary Wallace of Agriculture and Director George Peek of AAA. Then Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, the group's spokesman, with a sporty blue shirt, blue tie, grey suit and slicked-back hair, led them in to see the President. His jaunty step belied the deep concern he felt. South Dakota's Tom Berry, a broad-brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been...
...Manchukuo farmers in the best ways of growing opium. Stamped on the new money of Manchukuo, he sarcastically observed, is "a beautiful poppy in full bloom!"-an opium poppy. Of the Manchukuo Opium Monopoly, financed by a Japanese loan, Mr. Fuller snapped, "There can be no question that the concern was established for the express purpose of extending and exploiting the smoking of opium!" Across the League table, as these charges were hurled, sat Japan's placid Masayuki Yokoyama, puffing a cigar. Japan has re-signed from the League and the U. S. has never belonged. After Mr. Fuller...
...generally comprehended this side the Mason-Dixon line that state institutions in the South, however liberal, cannot, with the present temper of feeling against the negro, dare to open their gates to him. Regardless of what constitutes ideal justice, any attempt at mixing the races in so crucial a concern as education would be certain to arouse a resentment both bitter and dangerous. Even if the colored student were tolerated by the whites, his plight would be made unbearable by social barriers erected around him. His theoretical right to learn, like his theoretical right to vote, avail him nothing...
...Candidate LaGuardia re ported to NRAdministrator Johnson that a member of the McKee slate was using the Blue Eagle insignia on his campaign literature. General Johnson promptly ordered the practice stopped. Inquisitor Samuel Seabury, stumping for LaGuardia, declared that McKee had drawn up cor poration papers for a realty concern, then voted as a city official to grade the street passing the company's premises...