Word: concernedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report of O. A. Schlaikjer '31, concerning the latest N.S.F.A. conference, held in Nebraska during the past vacation, holds out much hope for eventual success for the efforts of the Federation. In its attempt to arouse interest about college-problems considerable progress, according to the report, has already been shown. True, some of the delegates were inclined to evince discouragement even in this, the most elementary part of the program, but on the whole the attitude of the representatives was one of optimism. As to the other points, concern for national problems and international peace, the reports of achievement...
...CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from the U. S. Shipping Board by appointing Albert H. Denton, Kansas banker, as successor. The President was vexed with Mr. Hill because the latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved. And the administration tax program was being knocked out of joint by the House of Representatives (see THE CONGRESS). President Coolidge let the word go up Pennsylvania avenue that he was displeased...
...United States, he announced, could not cooperate in the work of the Arbitration and Security Commission "because of our determination to leave to the European nations those matters which are peculiarly their own concern and not ours...
...domestic commerce has received far less of the bureau's attention. For 1927-28 it has only $200,000 to spend on marketing surveys which various sections of the country are demanding. The bureaus' greatest domestic concern is to reduce waste in distributing commodities. The total value of U. S. business transactions each year approximates 80 billion dollars. Of this 10% is spent on inefficient methods of distribution...
...Transport Co., controlled by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana) to restrain the Mexican Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labor from canceling the oil drilling permits of the company (which the ministry had already done), the Supreme Court of Mexico passed judgment in favor of the U. S. concern...