Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willys-Overland Co. took over Moline Plow Co., made George Peek president at $100,000 a year. President Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
Back in his own office General Johnson announced at his Press conference: "Ford is not eligible for Government contracts. ... A billion-dollar concern cannot hide behind a $10,000 dealer...
...Secretary is thereby placed in a position doubly ignominious. But surely the reflection on Mr. Roosevelt is of a more weighty kind; if ever the spiritual head of a party should intervene in a local concern, the deposition of O'Brien should have challenged the President's responsibility. Here was the largest city in the republic, chained to a political machine hopelessly inefficient and corrupt. Gladstone was no Platonic guardian, but there were limits which his vassals could not pass. Instead, the President was silent, and allowed his lieutenant to engineer a very questionable candidacy which threatened the success...
...falling commodity prices, disgruntled farmers were getting ready to embroil the Midwest in an agricultural strike (see p.11). Rural agitation for inflation had raised an issue from which the Administration had been dancing away for weeks. But by noon the newshawks knew that the President's announcement would concern none of these things. The United Press, by querying Moscow, had scored a great "beat"' on the Russian recognition story...
...Clark University, legal adviser. The agenda and the apportionment of nations to the various colleges has not yet been decided upon, but will be taken up at the next meeting of the Executive Council, to be held shortly after Saturday, November 18. The problems to be discussed, however, will concern several of the important questions now facing the League at Geneva, such as disarmament, particularly as regards the revision of the Versailles Treaty...