Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does not expect OPM to O.K. all of Venezuela's needs without a battle. First big fight ahead will concern whether EDB can get a blanket approval, or will have to haggle over every item. If Colonel Lord wins that battle it will be a precedent for deals with the other 19 republics. His strongest arguments: 1) these are minimum needs, for which the Latin American countries are willing and eager to pay; 2) if they are not granted, in too many cases the war-straitened economies of these nations may collapse; 3) hemisphere solidarity is worth...
...last week. Because of OPM's priority order against non-defense housing (TIME, Oct. 6) millmen have had a flood of cancellations on "side-cut" lumber (for home construction). Last week Portland's West Oregon Lumber Co. cut operations from five to two days a week. Another concern did likewise. Said the West Coast Lumbermen's Association: "Others might follow...
...been a matter of deep concern to me that the inexpressibly vulgar invasion of the rump of the Widener Reading Room by those women from Shepard Street has gone unnoticed and unprotested. The matter's true significance, in my eyes at least, may be surmised from the fact that it has elicited from me my first letter to a newspaper...
Died. Dr. Shailer Mathews, 78, liberal theologian, dean emeritus of the University of Chicago Divinity School; in Chicago. Dean from 1908 to 1933, he was a lifetime fighter against religious obscurantism, an influential champion of the church's practical concern with social problems. He was never ordained, explained he preferred the greater freedom of action and speech allowed a layman...
Therefore, if you are sincere in your professions of concern for America, you must make known by every means at your disposal that you completely oppose any settlement of current labor disputes by force...