Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...raised a feeble cry that it is "unconstitutional" for him to throw his immense influence into the political scale. They carpingly pointed out that, although the new presidential epistle stresses the need of postponing a general election until the budget and other, bills can be rushed through, the "real" concern of President Hindenburg may lie ill delaying as long as possible that shift to the political left which is generally prognosticated as the result of the coming election...
...half-closed eyes. 'Squealer,' he said softly, 'I'm going to get you!' " But so multifarious are the disguises and devices with which Squealer cloaks his criminal doings that no one, not even the reader, can guess who he is. Dangerous doings centre around a London import and export concern; there is jolly old Frank Sutton, who runs this company; his gen eral manager is a surly individual, Captain John Leslie, known to be an ex-convict, to whom Sutton in his generous but perhaps too innocent fashion has given "another chance;" functioning under Captain Leslie is the inscrutable Tillman...
Corrigan re-named the concern the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. It is the tenth largest of the U. S. steel group,* but not yet is it to be guided by a woman. "Young Jim," who had bucked and reared under a trusteeship, had fashioned a trust bridle for his widow. She may sell her steel shares; she cannot vote them. That power lies with the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland and John H. Watson Jr., elected last week president of the corporation...
...maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality, mean nothing to the student whose eager hand can hardly wait to disclose a mind packed with information. It is only to the unfortunate who sees the lower gulfs yawning before him, and averts his eye in dismay, that external matters are of concern...
Significance. Billions of dollars are concerned; an international trade rivalry as bitter as any clash of armies. Usually the great oil powers respect each other's prices, markets, territories. Shell is rival of Standard of N. Y. and the powerful Standard of New Jersey (a separate concern whose attitude in the controversy is not yet clear) for oil control of the world. The price war may foreshadow a far reaching, dangerous disagreement with jealous, potent British commercial interests...