Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every time I give an opinion on anything-tariff, taxes, the Mormon Church or pigsticking in Argentina- somebody says, 'Well the blink-blank! I'm against him. . . .' I've no intention of making a declaration on any question with which Congress does not have immediate concern." Partisan rowing later spread from House to Senate where New Hampshire's Moses sarcastically "marvelled at the moderation with which Mr. Garner began his campaign for the Presidency." Senate Democrats pounced into the fray and the whole Capitol rumbled and roared with the stridencies of party warfare. Just...
Died. William H. Hoover, 82, philanthropist, founder and board chairman, of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners); after a short illness; in Canton, Ohio. His eldest son, Herbert W. (no kin to Herbert Clark Hoover), is president of the concern. Founder Hoover developed the vacuum cleaner from a friction sweeping device invented by a Cleveland janitor who, having asthma, hated dust...
...confronting both school and college. The purpose, as he sees it, of the education of tomorrow is to prepare a social man for a social system. The ideal of the individual triumphing personally in rigorous competition must be abandoned and in its place must come the altruistic citizen whose concern is to further the group of which he is a member...
...confident of doing so. The last incumbent, who was asked to resign as a result of the Seabury investigation, was a son of the Tiger and by the appearance of his bank account, no idle son. Whom Roosevelt will choose to succeed him is, therefore, a matter of grave concern...
...while others will have to be viewed with considerable doubt. There is little question but that the rules requiring padded equipment, liberalizing the use of substitutes, and preventing the use of a wedge on the kick-off will all meet with approval and have a beneficial effect. They all concern mere technicalities of play...