Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind of many a famous man lurks the question of what figure he will cut in History. That was the concern of the last bitter years of Napoleon; it worried vain Frederick the Great; it troubled Lincoln. Franklin Roosevelt, who has long had an eye on his own place in history, last week made plans to occupy...
Philadelphia Friends called the publicity "tragic" and, in view of the fact that the Record's Publisher Julius David Stern is a Jew, ''the worst crime in newspaper history." Their concern was justified when, on the day the Quaker delegation reached Berlin, Dr. Goebbels' organ Der Angriff sniggered: "We hope they will make themselves known. . . . Then we will know, you see, when to begin to quake-quake duly before the Quakers...
...whose 1928 expansion was underwritten by Goldman, Sachs and Bond & Goodwin, Dr. Coster transferred a private enterprise of his own, the business of trading in crude drugs from far places-China wood oil, camphor from Japan, Javanese quinine. McKesson & Robbins' crude drug department was very much the private concern of President F. Donald Coster...
...Limited Editions Club is a one-man concern. George Macy writes its prospectuses, selects its books, designs such important ones as the five-volume King James Bible, drives a shrewd bargain with printers and illustrators, runs his swanky Madison Avenue offices like an efficiency expert. Within walking distance is his Park Avenue home, where he lives with the pretty mother of his Linda, 7, his Jonathan, 1. He races to his office before nine, usually eats lunch at his desk, stays long after his 25 employes have gone home. Last year he organized Heritage Club, a subsidiary for mass-production...
...only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to sporting books, The Derrydale Press, like The Limited Editions Club, is a one-man concern. And among publishers, big, affable, 47-year-old Eugene Virginius Connett III, is a rare bird. Until twelve years ago his business was hats. One of the best dry-fly fishermen in the U. S., he is descended from an old New Jersey sporting family which owned one of the oldest U. S. men's hat factories. Publisher Connett liquidated the business during a strike, then sold printing for two years, printed 89 copies...