Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meetings will be led by Dr. Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory. In one on cosmogony he will give a series of lectures on the physical universe and the relation of the earth, solar system, and galaxy to the rest of the cosmos. The other colloquium will concern hollow squares, consisting of informal discussions of various observational and theoretical investigations...
...genesis of these organizations was not the Senators' chief concern. What seemed to interest them most was the interlocking connection between the organizations due to the homogeneity of their big backers. With the aid of questionnaires sent to Big Businessmen, the Committee was able to show that the Crusaders, the Liberty League and kindred bodies had many a mutual friend who was ready to play his antipathy to the Roosevelt Administration all the way across the board. Ironically, the list of men who endow the New Deal's Opposition was found to include many a bigwig who belonged...
Only company to imitate Campbell's condensed soups in a big way was Phillips Packing Co., a smallish, flamboyantly aggressive concern with headquarters in Cambridge, in the heart of Maryland's fertile Eastern Shore vegetable belt. Phillips not only crashed the U. S. soup mar ket with a condensed soup; it sold...
...decision: ''We are unable to see how any right of the general public can be affected by the withdrawal of such an application before it has gone into effect. . . . The conclusion seems inevitable that an abandonment of the application was of no concern to anyone except the registrant. . . . The Commission itself had challenged the integrity of the registration statement and invited the registrant to show cause why its effectiveness should not be suspended. In the face of such an invitation, it is a strange conclusion that the registrant is powerless to elect to save himself the trouble...
...because the Stock Exchange failed to suspend a member until after his firm was enjoined from further business by the Attorney General of New York, President Gay got his first taste of stern public criticism. Walter P. McCaffray & Co. got into trouble in an effort to bolster an affiliated concern called German American Securities Co. Inc. by lending it some $100,000 last summer. To raise part of that sum Walter P. McCaffray & Co. borrowed too freely upon its customers' securities. Meantime, according to the prosecuting attorney, German American was doing some highly irregular bookkeeping...