Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1930s, entered Georgetown University law school. He had a brother in the small-loan business in Baltimore and a sister with some money. Soon Wallace Groves had small-loan companies scattered about the District of Columbia, nearby Virginia and Maryland. In 1931, having merged his companies with a Chicago concern, he sold out, decided to try his hand in Wall Street...
...bought a pencil-manufacture monopoly in the Soviet Union from the State under the NEP or "New Economic Policy" of Nikolai Lenin. They cleaned up huge profits making pencils for Communists to plan with, and the Stalin State finally paid the Hammers $1,000,000 for their going concern, let them take out Romanov antiques which they now sell on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...
...Odets led a party to Cuba to investigate its dictatorship, was promptly arrested, soon after deported. Odets now chiefly furthers his beliefs through his writings. Says he: "People can only do one thing at a time. A writer must write. Besides, it is not the explosion that should most concern the artist-it is the causes leading...
Radcliffe fought five with fire yesterday, greeting the newly formed Bachelor's Society with emotions ranging from scorn to deepest concern. If the Harvard group continues to grow, according to several of the girls, they expect to form an Old Maids' Club...
...lecture will concern the young explorer's aerial mapping flights this past summer in Alaska under the auspices of the Institute and the National Geographic Society, when he discovered and photographed the largest glacier in the world outside of the polar regions...