Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy, Governor of Porto Rice, and Governor-General of the Philippines, will address Yardlings in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock this evening. It is thought that, as former chief executive of two of our insular possessions. Roosevelt's talk will concern them or American colonial policies in general...
Although the exact subject of Roosevelt's talk is not known, it will probably concern the Phillipine Islands or America's colonial policy...
...President Conant's chief concern was not the students who are in U. S. universities, but those who are not. Pointing out that few families with incomes of less than $2,000 a year can afford to send a child to college, and that 80% of U. S. families are in that category, he declared: "It is perfectly evident to me that at the college level and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond...
...profit in 1937-$270,000 before income tax deductions. This makes it a choice business property, but North American Aviation found possession embarrassing because the Air Mail Act of 1934 forbids one company both to have airmail contracts and to manufacture airplanes. North American is the only U. S. concern to have gotten away with this since the act passed (by building military planes exclusively) and the Government has been scowling at the situation. Since North American's manufacturing division has a backlog of $9,300,000 in orders, anticipates many more and made a profit...
...find reasons for Mr. Whitney's downfall in the light of his integrity and personal success. One report says his house violated the Martin Act, which regulates the sale of stocks and bonds; another, that the charges to be preferred against him involve his connection with a liquor concern, in which he held 12,000 shares. Obviously, it is unfair to judge his business or himself until he has had a chance to speak at the March 17 hearing. But what happens to Mr. Whitney and his firm will not be remembered so much as what their failure proves. First...