Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lord Walter Runciman, 90, millionaire British shipowner, father of Walter Runciman who was onetime (1914-16, 1931-37) president of the Board of Trade; at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Lord Runciman ran away to sea at 12, became a peer at 85. His own shipping concern was the Moor Line of cargo vessels, though he was board chairman-of Anchor Lines...
Meanwhile, impeccably dressed Grover Whalen returned to his comfortable duties as head of New York's 1939 World's Fair. Candidate Mahoney declared: "I am no man's man." Candidate Copeland sniffed: ''These shufflings do not concern me." Candidate LaGuardia, already Fusion's and American Labor Party's choice and still waiting for a friendly nod from the Republicans, said nothing...
...French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next met, Lena had joined a gang of Albanian pillagers about to attack the village, explaining that she had done so in order to catch Serbian spies. Her main concern at the moment, however, was to manage his escape. But De Queslain, who still thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that the Albanians had already arrived and begun their slaughter and rape before he could be convinced. Lena's next move ought...
...Hollywood, Viscount Konoye's discussions with studio officials will concern modifications of Madame Butterfly (which Paramount made twice before, most lately in 1932 with Sylvia Sydney and no music) to make it more complimentary to Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed...
...marketing of blocks of stock closely held, a type of deal which will tend to multiply as prosperity increases. An example of this kind of deal was last week's offering of 25,000 common shares of Chicago Rivet & Machine Co., a tight little $1,000,000 concern which dutifully recorded in its registration statement that it was one of the respondents in anti-trust proceedings against members of the Institute of Tubular Split & Outside Pronged Rivet Manufacturers. Sale of the stock will provide no money for the company, the shares having been purchased from the Morrissey family...