Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bespectacled young diplomat by the name of Samuel Walter Washington from West Virginia watched with concern the Brazilian revolution swirl about his head...
...After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer. He rose up and castigated Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker's regime in these terms: "I charge the men of large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world...
Publicist Jones. Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones, great trainer of flyers and one of the best-liked men in U. S. aviation, last week was made a vice president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and put in charge of all the concern's public relations. A sort of promotion for him, it required his removal as president of Curtiss-Wright Flying Service. Other Curtiss-Wright personnel changes last week: Major E. H. Brainard became C. W. Flying Service president; William F. Carey turned his presidency of C.W. Airports Corp. over to Charles W. Loos and returned to his railroading; Bruce Gardner Leighton...
...what he asked, made him in fact Dictator. By way of passing his coup off suavely Dictator Machado left Havana on a brief fishing trip, tried to appear in U. S. eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman Elihu Root (in whose law office he was apprenticed), Mr. Stimson intimated that there will be no "intermeddling or interference...
...seemed popular response to the shootings, that all question of whether the dead men could possibly have provoked a general famine vanished from the realm of practical politics. Point of the savage affair seemed to be that it offered fresh, significant proof of Ivan Ivanovitch's present pressing concern to fill his belly. If food were even fairly easy to obtain in Russia, popular fury could not thus be roused to national frenzy merely because the No. I Soviet meat man was supposed to have taken a bribe...