Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...works program, that by buying one of the biggest U. S. shipyards he was sure to get some of the biggest contracts. New York Shipbuilding's capitalization made it easy for Lou Manning to negotiate the deal for his boss. Sole voting power in the $15,000,000 concern rests with 185,500 founders' shares. And a majority was available in two blocks- one owned by the old partners of Blair & Co. (Bancamerica-Blair), one by Chase National Bank which salvaged the shares from the wreck of Pynchon & Co. For the two blocks Cord Corp. paid about...
Once again in Washington the Spanish Ambassador was asked to the State Department, told that the matter was now one of "grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
...China report supports the general contentions of Re-Thinking Missions. The Laymen's Inquiry noted that Christian endeavor is out of line with current Oriental trends and advocated that Christianity concern itself directly with social service and only obliquely with conversion. The sociological work should be carefully coordinated by a super-missionary body representing all important Protestant denominations...
...price which made the Elder John Pierpont Morgan groan. What they did keep was the tin can trust. Today most tin plate is made by steel companies and most tin plate is used by can companies. For American Can is no longer a trust but merely the biggest concern in a competitive field. Thus the present tin plate boom is in reality a tin can boom, for as every one knows tin cans are not made of tin but of sheet steel thinly coated with tin. Exports have soared with the slumping dollar. Nearly...
...Kuhn, Loeb partners were, however, able to brush up their memories. For the first noteworthy fact about Kuhn, Loeb today is that of its eleven partners only two were members of the firm prior to 1928: Felix Warburg, elected 1896, now active only in an advisory capacity, whose chief concern today is with the long tier of filing cabinets containing the desiers of his numberless charities which stand behind his desk in the K. L. office; Otto Kahn, elected 1897, diplomat of the firm, whose numerous public and private appearances, not to mention ill health, have in recent years reduced...