Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every other State, the New Jersey Legislature fussed and fiddled over a stack of legislative trivialities with which its critics contend it should not concern itself. Passed were bills to license barbers, to accept Grover Cleveland's birthplace at Caldwell as public property, to register lodge emblems. Though it ducked a sales tax and beat a horse racing & betting bill. its more important enactments followed a national trend. As in three other States, it required automobiles to be equipped with safety glass in the near future. As in 33 other States, it took control of beer sales...
Though Dr. Dewing did not concern them, Federal sleuths were still scurrying around last week, trying to find $600,000,000 worth of gold, asking the list of holders: "What did you do with the gold you withdrew...
...York's music publishers failed to share Zeta Psi's enthusiasm for the King-Elliott song. A British concern accepted it first. It was the rage in every London music-hall before a New York house would gamble on it. Even then few copies were sold here until the U. S. entered the War. Then regimental band-masters seized on it. In Oklahoma's Fort Sill thousands of raw recruits began to swelter to it. In Massachusetts' Devens thousands more shivered to it. Camp Gordon's men shaved to it, groomed horses to it, built...
License. To bring balky industries into line the President can clamp a licensing system down on them. By canceling a license he may put one concern or a whole industry out of business until it is ready to subscribe to a fair trade code. The licensing period is one year instead of two. Last week many a manufacturer was threatening to shut up shop altogether rather than submit to this gun-at-head provision...
Whether Casey actually did ask the doctor if the boy were dead or not will be difficult for the investigators to ascertain, as the accounts of the witnesses vary widely. What may be assumed, however, is that Chief Casey's concern over the expense of the oxygen hardly exceeded his interest in saving the life; Casey's real reason for calling off the rescue appears to be the same one which has prompted him to interfere on several other occasions -- he is determined to discredit and to make as difficult as possible the work of the rescue squad...