Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with this problem in mind that Secretary Wallace went to Manhattan to address a Columbia University audience. To them he unburdened some measure of his anxiety for his program's future when he said: "I'd be delighted to be an old-fashioned Secretary of Agriculture and concern myself with scientific matters. It is a calm and peaceful kind of existence, but I don't think we are going to be living in the kind of world in the next two or three years where we can drop our agricultural adjustment program. We are going to ease...
...Government believes that a corporation has, in a given year, laid up a bigger surplus than it "reasonably" needs, simply to dodge taxes, it may punish the concern by a penalty of 25% to 35% on its net income for the year. Last week the Treasury revealed that it had levied such penalties on some 100 U. S. corporations. Prime targets on its lists were personal holding companies. Most famed was Fisher & Co.. holding company of Detroit's six Fisher brothers (automobile bodies), down for $17,199,797 for alleged evasions in 1929 and 1930. Others and penalties...
...First National Bank of Seattle, is president of Everett Trust & Savings Bank and Everett's First National, controls immense timber interests in western Washington. Though his is one of the Northwest's big fortunes, his name appears on no door, window or nameplate, identifies no concern, is not listed in Who's Who or the Everett telephone book. The oldest employe in the First National of Seattle does not know who he is. Yet, through Brother Nicholas, he has selected two of the University of Washington's presidents. When Chairman Emerson last week declared that...
...supplied him with more than 1,000. His special duty as a fellow of the College of Surgeons will be to regiment Negro doctors behind the College's policy of fostering insurance policies to pay hospital bills. As with every intelligent Negro, genetics is an immediate personal concern to Dr. Wright. His complexion is light brown. Mrs. Wright, a onetime school-teacher whose mother was German, has all the appearance of a white. With keen intellectual curiosity they awaited the births of their two children. Jane, 14, is distinctly brown. Barbara, 13, looks like a little white girl...
...football team when it scheduled a game with Georgia Tech, it was astonishingly forgetful; ... if it was conscious of Ward's being on the team but scheduled the game anyway, it was extraordinarily stupid. . . . The line-up of the team, regardless of what motivation there was, is the concern of the coach...