Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until the Supreme Court implied in its argument a few days ago that agriculture is of mere local concern, no authoritative body in this land has made a contention contrary to regarding it as of national concern...
...continue to shed more light on the public and business affairs of the nation than any other instrumentality of publicity; and since informed public opinion is the most potent of all restraints upon misgovernment, the suppression or abridgment of ... a free press cannot be regarded otherwise than with grave concern...
When he went to Washington in 1934 as an Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Eccles' business interests included the presidencies of a $2,000,000 milk product company, a big Oregon lumber concern, a huge construction company, and the $50,000,000 Eccles group of banks. In addition he was vice president of Amalgamated Sugar Co., a director of a railroad, a hotel company, a farm implement company, a retail lumber organization. All this was achieved in less than 20 years from the time he set up Eccles Investment Co. to manage...
...denied these charges, Columbia last week signed a consent decree which left the Government with at least the appearance of triumph. In effect, Columbia agreed to get out of the Parish line by separating itself from Columbia Oil & Gasoline. The latter company will be reorganized as an independent concern, having no corporate connection with Columbia Gas & Electric. While this reorganization is in progress, the Parish line stock held by Columbia Oil & Gasoline will be put in the hands of a trustee, Gano Dunn, head of J. G. White Engineering Corp., onetime president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Appointed...
...appreciation of Shakspere's poetry was all that Kittredge attempted. He saw Shakspere as a man, writing for his Elizabethan audience the most thrilling and poetic plays he knew how, and if later critics have chosen to read more than this into the plays, it is their own concern...