Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three hours. At 10:30 a.m. he told the Cabinet he would address the Senate at noon, an impromptu procedure such as none at the White House could recall witnessing. From a special platform set up at the reading clerk's desk the President voiced his grave concern over depletion of the nation's gold reserves; appealed for economy of $400,000,000, support of his relief program (see below); urged speedy passage of a general manufacturers' excise...
...Inquisitor tossed this question into the proceedings during the last of the Mayor's two sessions on the stand. Publisher Block, according to testimony brought out at an earlier hearing, had been interested in a Brooklyn concern which planned to sell tile to the city subways. The Mayor affirmed the revelation of his amazing generosity with a shrug of his shoulders, called it a "beneficence," said that he always took his gains home in cash and put them in a safe-"not a vault, not a tin box." Publisher Block's gift, instead of damaging the Mayor, appeared...
...programs of the two organizations would hardly confuse the policies of the Liberal Club and the National Student League. The first was founded in 1919, to be guided by the "animating" ideal of "the open mind," and has since then only rarley become actively involved in struggles that concern the "outside world." The National Student League, however, was born of the depression, among the students of our large city colleges where economic pressure on the undergraduates is strongest. Harvard has proved so far to be barren soil for this radical plant. The American university man is in general apathetic...
...prominent Manhattan physician. Although he has been out of college (Brown) for twelve years, friends always recall his college record when asked about him. The record includes a chairmanship of the promenade committee, four years as a football centre. After working for an insurance company and then an importing concern, Mr. Hoving entered Macy's "training school" in 1924. Once he was asked to make a report on linoleum for a vice president and did so well he became the executive's assistant. He refers to this with studied modesty: "I made a few suggestions and became...
...purposes." Not in his lifetime, nor in the succeeding century, was anything done about founding one. There existed in Washington no official church for state weddings or funerals or solemn thanksgiving or prayer in time of stress. The religion of the U. S. President was, and is, of no concern to the State: he could worship, get married, be buried with his own kind. But for the nation itself there ought to be a church, thought George Washington and many men after him, where heroes should be entombed and citizens make pilgrimage. It assuredly must be a great cathedral...