Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such time as a plebiscite on the new constitution can be held; the old representative organs are being abolished; and the army and navy are being used to insure President' Vargas' authority; but these are familiar accompaniments of a South American revolution. That which gives democratic countries cause for concern is the fact that intolerance and the destruction of free thought have gained a real foothold in the American continent, the stronghold of liberalism and freedom. This is precisely the development which President Conant and others are fighting in the United States...
...proposals, which were released in New York on Sunday, proceed from the principles that 'the health of the people is a direct concern of the government," that a national public health policy for all the population should be formulated, and that the four groups concerned with giving medical care are the federal, state, and local governments, and private organizations...
...solemnly denied. Confronted by Washington reports of tax revision, the President avoided endorsing them. Instead, he told his press conference that the reports were written from the point of view of those-who-have rather than of those-who-have-not-who were, said Franklin Roosevelt, still his major concern...
...sense, the idea being hundreds of years old. To hold that machine operators cannot be organized on the same basis is due to ignorance of the job itself. From the standpoint of organizing it is expedient and lucrative, but to say that a toolmaker or first-class grinder should concern himself with the plight of his union brother who is pushing a truck is taking a pretty general viewpoint. This is one of the dangers of the industrial union as far as strikes are concerned...
...remind ourselves, as well as the gentlemen who produced the evidence, that we had not taken it upon ourselves to investigate Communism or Fascism in either the United States or Spain. Our only concern has been Harvard and he Harvard ambulance; how the funds were collected here and how they were spent...