Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens may have a slogan as important as "Remember the Maine!"-namely, "Remember Mrs. Simpson!"-and be disinclined to rush overseas a second time to help the "Mother Country" fight. Not in the least far-fetched in the United Kingdom today, this authentic fear was giving serious concern in Whitehall. In 1936 thus far Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin has received at No. 10 Downing St. no U. S. citizen of however great distinction, excepting diplomats, and to a member of his own Cabinet who attempted to introduce an American he replied. 'I am really not in the mood...
...interest to him that President Miguel Moriano GÓmez y Arias was pushing through the Cuban Senate yet another radical constitution. Batista's concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form of "dictatorship" which is neither Fascism nor Stalinism, but Batistism. Like all devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated...
There is no special danger of a spread of the infections except that which is usual in the case of colds. No special concern for the present situation was expressed by Dr. Bock...
...your recovery and that it almost destroyed you. Fairly or unfairly, you became the scapegoats of a bewildered and discouraged people. This new recovery, certainly in its early stages, will also be your recovery. Its responsibilities are now yours. How long you will discharge them is your first concern. ... If the mandate of last November means to us that we must not fail, more clearly does it mean to you that you dare not fail...
...fruit-jar tycoon and George Ashley Tomlinson, 70, Great Lakes ship operator. The two George A.'s together put up $3,121,000 to buy the key collateral pledged by the Van Sweringens for defaulted loans from a J. P. Morgan & Co. banking group, setting up a concern called Midamerica Corp. as a new super-holding company for the Van Sweringens. What the Brothers Van Sweringen got was a 10-year option on a controlling block of Midamerica common stock, together with the right to vote it in the meantime...