Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President telegraphed to Friend W. Richardson, Governor of California: "Have noticed with deep concern the report of the growing destruction of forest fires in your State. I trust you will advise me if effective aid can properly be extended by the Federal Government...
Jefferson Caffery, U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, called upon Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara (onetime Ambassador to the U. S.) and asked him to make immediate investigation. Twice did the Foreign Minister call upon Mr. Caffery in order to express his concern over the incident and to offer the "most sincere regrets" of his Government. "Surely," said he, "no one in the U. S. would believe the Japanese people capable of sympathizing with an outrage of this kind " He also said that the police would do their utmost to apprehend the culprit-which they later succeeded in doing...
This tendency toward new models is only a phase of the severe competition in the business. One company announces a novel appliance or feature. If it gains public favor, all the other companies hasten to adopt it too. Once a new model is finished and on the market, each concern starts planning feverishly on its next model. Hence, the industry as a whole is very "spotty"; while one large Detroit company has virtually shut down, another is planning for greatly increased production...
...House of Commons, Premier MacDonald of Britain made it clear that the Premiers' Conference, which the French and British Premiers decided to call (TIME, June 30), will concern itself solely with putting into operation the provisions of the Experts' Report. Once this was settled, continued the Premier, the problems of interallied debts and French security would be separately broached. There is much wisdom in segregating these problems and settling them one by one; for in this sane policy lies at least the certainty that something will be done to relieve the burdens of a staggering Europe...
...future is much more the concern of youth than of their elders. Youth, we are told, is in revolt. I sincerely hope so. The youth who in normal times is satisfied with the achievements of his parents and forbears is at the best ballast which adds nothing to the propelling power of his ship. But the youth who is satisfied with the world as he finds it today is a menace and had better be overboard...