Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to the popular conception of a pitifully attenuated army, Malin Craig thinks his 163,800 enlisted men are just 16,200 less than enough. His prime concern is not over numbers but over equipment and organization. Major items in this new army's makeup...
...this week flew toward Alaska. He is to look over the route of a proposed 2,338-mile highway from Seattle to Fairbanks, inquire whether the project has sufficient military value to justify expenditure of U. S. money on a road through Canada. By law, this is no direct concern of the Assistant Secretary of War. But Franklin Roosevelt is interested, and Louis Johnson is glad to accommodate his friend at the White House...
Perilous to any new union is its arrival at the armchair stage, when leaders bred in strife must simultaneously run a going concern and keep their restive rank & file content. Last week the leaders...
...Daniel Hurson Cut Stone Co. of Washington, D. C., put a sign on the door of the safe: "To whom it may concern: there is no money in this safe, only some papers of no value to any one. Please do not break open." Last week a thief broke into Hurson's store, grinned at the sign, cracked the safe, found it as empty as Mother Hubbard's cupboard...
...addition to its own intense egocentricity, Hollywood's concern with show business is obviously prompted by the necessity for showing off personalities who have made a hit on other stages. Letter of Introduction thus serves as a vehicle for Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, who function simply as themselves. Ventriloquist Bergen introduces a rival to Charlie in the person of a dummy named Mortimer. Minute effigy of a country bumpkin, as hideous, crude and amiable as Charlie is tart, slick and natty, Mortimer chatters for only one sequence, after Charlie has taxed Edgar Bergen with ingratitude, but this...