Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been protected. As our [economic] difficulties have originated in large degree from [foreign] sources, any effort to bring about our own recuperation has dictated the necessity of co-operation by us with other nations to restore world confidence. . . . The difficulties between China and Japan have given us great concern. ... It is our purpose to assist in finding solutions...
...wisest and most serious may study. Under his direction such a place will soon rise in New Jersey: the Institute for Advanced Study, built with $5,000,000 given by retired Storekeeper Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld. From this, Dr. Flexner's chief present concern, he took time last week once more to flay Columbia and Chicago. They, said he, "and many State universities, go into the marketplace, advertising their wretched claptrap in newspapers and in magazines. Some of these activities are little short of dishonest...
Last week P. (for Pierre) Lorillard Co. moved into a class by itself as the only major industrial concern in the U.S. to resume dividends in 1931. Lorillard shares had not paid since 1926. From 1925 through 1929 when most companies increased earnings, Lorillard showed a steady decline to a low of 29? per share, but last year they jumped to $1.48. The dividend resumption was partly made possible by the calling, last fortnight, of $13,758,000 Lorillard 5½% bonds (TIME...
...given a current-events course, we'll fill the lecture-hall to the doors. And there is hope for a rebirth of interest in the world's doings. One has only to be witness to the hush of curious concern that falls over the History I assembled multitude when the lecturer draws a parallel to the Middle Ages from some recent world-event. Beverley M. Bowie...
Rich Man's Folly (Paramount), supposed to have been suggested by Dickens' Dombey & Son, is an earnest but stodgy study of a gloomy man of business (George Bancroft). An irascible and exaggerated enthusiasm for his shipbuilding concern makes him, at first, a monster. He wants nothing but a son to carry on his name and when his wife dies, in furnishing him with one, he shows a callous gratification. The story plods on, a pony with the manners of a percheron, while the son dies (of a cold caught at a ship's christening), while the shipbuilder...