Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Lords was packed with aroused peers as it had not been in years. Out of its 850-odd members, normally only a tenth or less attend.* But last week 258 showed up to listen, speak and be counted. In the debate, some of them displayed a lively concern over an issue deeper than steel or immediate programs. Old Viscount Cecil of Chelwood cried that the Parliament Bill was leading straight to an "oligarchy" of the cabinet. Sweeping the chamber with a steely glare, he said: "I shall be told, perhaps, that this does not matter because the cabinet...
...Scarborough, Dalton's "Keep Left" speeches had been well-received by rank & file delegates ; they elected him to the Party Executive by a whopping vote. For Laborites who thought that Cripps was going ahead too slowly with the Socialist revolution (or that the government was showing too much concern for middle-class and professional support in the 1950 elections), Dalton was intoning the oldtime religion: the cure for what ails Britain is just more Socialism...
...U.A.W.'s solemn Vice President John Livingston saw the offer, he dropped his other demands and snapped it up. The union called the 3? annual increase no more than a gesture, but it hailed G.M.'s acceptance of "the principle that prices and profits are a concern of labor...
...season of Protestant get-togethers was in full swing last week. Everywhere there was talk about church mergers. Protestants showed an increasing awareness of how much they have in common; they also displayed a stubborn, but understandable, concern over what they held precious in their own creeds...
...little Free Church of Scotland, strict Highland offshoot of the Church of Scotland, passed a resolution expressing "grief and concern" that the royal couple, in their visit to Paris (TIME, May 24) had indulged in "racing, theater and nightclub dancing on the Lord...