Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthright fashion behind the theme that the "world is too much with us", Professor Munn gave embryo philosophers something to test their newly digested theory upon, and whether he was able to settle anything in their minds or not, he definitely aided in making the issue a vigorous, living concern...
...Chahar Province, swung furiously westward last week in efforts to break through into Inner Mongolia and cut off China from Soviet-dominated Outer Mongolia whence supplies are streaming to aid Nanking. No correspondent was reported within hundreds of miles of this most vital offensive, watched with cat-like concern by Tokyo, but the Japanese claimed they had broken through Chinese defenses on the frontier of Suiyuan, seized strategic rail junctions...
...with Mexican customers, the new tax was a new headache. It fails to make any allowance for the fact that some transactions result in losses. It seriously affects contracts already made with Mexican buyers without expectation of the added cost. It will also result in double taxation for any concern which maintains an office in Mexico, since such offices already pay income taxes. According to the new decree, these offices will be entitled to a rebate, but U. S. exporters sniffed that the chance of getting money back from Mexico was like the chance of getting it back from...
This minuscule exhortation caused a flutter of official concern and unofficial merriment in Washington. An uninhibited artist, who makes no secret of the complete hospitality he has enjoyed in more than one "igloo," Rockwell Kent has, when he felt like it, signed his letters to the New Masses "Yours for the Revolution." After newspapers had interpreted Artist Kent's message as an encouragement to horrid revolt in Puerto Rico, Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples of the Treasury Department's Procurement Division solemnly demanded an explanation, let it be known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid...
...jurisdiction. It is a question of jurisdiction of two governmental agencies. Intervention of the lower Federal courts in such labor disputes is a direct challenge to the Board's power and vice versa. The Board insisted last week that the Wagner Act "embodies a public policy of national concern and is the supreme law of the land on the subject matter covered by it. It empowers the Board to prevent any unfair labor practice . . . and expressly provides that 'this power shall be exclusive...