Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last two decades: "There has been an obvious retrogression.... In circumstances where loyalty to high idealism was imperative, we as individuals and as a people have compromised with expediency ... and amid the confusion resulting from unrest of the spirit we have sought surcease from concern in new dissipations and in more self-indulgence...
...please tell them the way out of the woods. Out of this incident the amiable Cardinal made a little homily to the effect that just so does the True Church lead unbelievers from the woods. New York Catholics call their archbishop "the Cardinal of Charities" because his great concern is for the archdiocesan charities organization which he founded and still runs. His private charities the Shepherd of New York tries to keep unobtrusive...
...Church of Rome once was apprehensive of the apparently upstart tendencies of Catholicism in the U. S. However successful the "American brand" of Catholicism was, there remained some nervous concern in 1924 when Patrick Hayes arrived in Rome to receive his red hat. He looked too young to be a Cardinal. And he shocked many a Roman when he preached his first sermon in his titular church in English. Then the new Cardinal cabled home: "My blessings to Little Old New York." That, eleven years later, the Pope chose his "dear little brother" Hayes to send to Cleveland rather than...
...abroad (over a 4¢ per Ib. tariff) or from Aluminum Co. of America, sole domestic source. The Baush management regards Aluminum as an unfair enterprise. Aluminum's opinion of Baush was summed up by an Aluminum lawyer who, noting the company's succession of deficits, remarked that the Springfield concern seemed primarily engaged in the "lawsuit business...
...city 97¢ on the dollar, then resold the bonds to bankers at 92¢, pocketing the loss because the proceeds were used to complete civic improvement promised lot-owners. Another $4,500,000 issue, which the corporation purchased from the city for a little less than par, cost the Merrick concern nearly $1,000,000 to market. A fee of $600,000 was necessary to persuade the bankers to take it at any price. Hundreds of thousands were lavished on promotion. Out of the goodness of his heart William Jennings Bryan gave 50 bond salesmen special fight talks. Today Coral Gables...