Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frank L. Stanton Jr. of Atlanta. Ga. was the "little fellow" spoken of in the song written by his father Frank L. Stanton. for many years a contributing editor to the Atlanta Constitution. Frank junior, an executive in a furniture concern, was driving to Jacksonville, Fla. with his wife and 5-year-old daughter. Dorothy. The car struck a bridge abutment and burst into flames. Mrs. Stanton was killed instantly, her husband died a few hours later. The child was uninjured...
...announcement last week of the final pacification of Libya was a matter of great concern to France. Stirred were old Franco-Italian rivalries focusing on the north coast of Africa. France's rich fertile Tunis is only 90 miles from the tip of Italy's island, Sardinia. There are more Italians living in French Tunis than in Italian Libya which is, for the most part, a barren useless land. The southern boundary of Libya has never been definitely fixed. France has avoided the question for years by insisting that since Italy could not control the territory she already...
...making rubber out of sewage. Vastly successful at this enterprise, he is presently discomforted to learn that the inventor, upon whose formulas the company's production plans depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed by the incompetence of his staff, a fat Hebrew whom he names Col. Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe (Guy Kibbee), and by the justified suspicions of an attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry...
...hickory nuts. All of his money was in the hay business and he wanted to get married. With his friend Victor Bell he peddled the lumber bought for hay sheds, recouped part of his loss. That was the beginning of Long-Bell Lumber Corp., world's greatest lumber concern under one ownership. Long-Bell grew to a company with $108,000,000 in assets. Yet assets do not always earn profits. Lumber has long been bad. Last week, alarmed by mounting deficits, certain bondholders of Long-Bell asked for a receivership. Prompt to protest was Chairman Long...
...Statesman Stimson, as it appeared circumstantially, played the Barco con cession against the $4,000,000 loan and thus secured a triumph of dollar diplomacy? No, was his indignant answer. The two matters, while parallel, were separate and distinct. The State Department insisted that its sole concern in these negotiations was "the fostering of friendly relations...