Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high in the councils of the motor industry, roomed with Frank Murphy in his District Attorney days.* To Mr. Foy and many motor men, the new Attorney General may not seem much better than a Communist. Frank Murphy maintains that Abraham Lincoln, not Karl Marx, gave him his concern for "human rights against property rights...
...This concern is no political pose with Frank Murphy. Ascetic, perfectionist, he really believes that, instead of becoming a Roman Catholic priest he became a social priest, ordained by his late mother, who taught him to honor Jews and Negroes as highly as other men. In his first mayoral campaign, Detroit called him "Dew and Sunshine" after a speech in which he said that was the kind of new morning Detroit needed. If the so-called Monopoly Investigation imposes upon him the duty of prosecuting any large vested interests, the latter may be sure he will do it with painful...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...organ of Protestantism, had lately declared that the churches today are in a "time of waiting," a time in which "the church does not know how to act; yet has not learned to wait"; a time in which the social action which was once the Church's great concern had been stalled. To the Catholic view, the Church was, as always, the Church militant-though, to many of its rank & file, the Church seemed to be fighting, on some fronts, a rearguard action...
Robinson Jeffers, California's unofficial laureate, this month published his Selected Poetry (Random House, $3.50). In its foreword he stated his poetic creed. He declared that "poetry must concern itself with (relatively) permanent things." His work at its best does give an impression of the emptiness of the American continent, an emptiness which the continent fills with (relatively) permanent things like forests, mountains, rivers and 130 million people, and which Jeffers, for the most part, fills with mythological personages, semi-scientific platitudes, nonpoetical intensities, and-for the pay-off-mental exhaustion...