Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative action proposed by the Canadian Government with regard to the Dionno litter should be of immediate concern not only to every liberty loving Harvard student but also to every mother and father in the United States. The proposed bill intends that the Misses Dionne shall not be commercialized by the money grubbing vaudeville entrepreneurs of New York and Chicago. It is a direct national slap at the great acquisitive qualities which have maintained the Yankee at the top of the financial heap, and an insult to that maternal instinct which flames inherent in the breasts of all true Americans...
...last week the Life Extension Institute, with Messrs. Fisher & Ley still in control, had become a $2,000,000 concern, occupying three floors of a midtown Manhattan building and offices in Chicago. Its doctors had made 1,620,000 medical examinations during the preceding 22 years. Three of every 100 examinees came on their own initiative attracted by the advertising which the Life Extension Institute no longer finds necessary or by some of 2,000,000 educational leaflets distributed each year. Two were employees whom business concerns needed to keep healthy. The other 95 were holders of insurance policies whom...
...troubles was with the New York Stock Exchange, his old and favorite enemy. Back in 1932 when Mr. Andrews was booming the sale of securities in packages of one share each in 25 or 50 corporations, the Stock Exchange forbade its members to execute orders for the Andrews selling concern. By the time an injunction was obtained the cream was off the packaged securities business, and the Andrews company still has a $21,000,000 damage suit pending against the Stock Exchange's 40 august governors...
...many Juniors are in the unsatisfactory category as Freshmen, while fifty per cent more are on the Dean's list. Freshmen and their seniors should however, take this as a warning, rather than believing that studies become easier the longer one stands the gaff. The cause for the concern which ought to trouble their scholarly breasts is the lamentable fact that the apparent improvement can be accounted for by the number of men whose "connections with the University have been permanently severed"--in past years something like one-third of those who enter...
There is real cause for concern in the fact that the World Revolution will sweep all before it. Were the prospect less awesome, the day of the Great Event could be faced with courage, for surely it would see many remarkable things...