Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are stages in his isolationism. He believes that the U.S.'s first concern should be domestic affairs (foremost among them labor's affairs). He believes that the U.S., if concerned with affairs abroad, should not take the part of Britain primarily; should, if necessary, do business with the Nazis; and should pay enormous attention to economic relations with Russia. He has no faith in Roosevelt, in Roosevelt's foreign policy, in Roosevelt's economic policies, and his opposition to them makes him an isolationist...
...once a member of the Communist Party. Bridges rambled into the hall three days late, grinned happily amidst his welcome: confetti, dancing, hammerings, five minutes' yelling. N.M.U. had already gone on record against his deportation. Host Curran: "... a very distinguished citizen who has caused a great deal of concern in the National Association of Manufacturers...
General Electric of Germany is the sprawling Siemens concern, manufacturing all kinds of electrical equipment from huge hydro-electric plants to telephones. Head of the Siemens firms since 1919 has been the youngest son of their founder, tall, frank-faced Carl Friedrich von Siemens...
Drive-In is the invention* of Richard Milton Hollingshead Jr., a vigorous fellow of 41 who thinks the U.S. was much happier in the days when most people couldn't read. His concern, Park-In Theatres, Inc., headed by Cousin Warren Willis Smith, is collecting 5% of all the Drive-In Theaters' weekly gross. Vice president in charge of manufacturing of R. M. Hollingshead Corp., world's largest makers of automotive polishes, enamels, brake fluids, etc., Hollingshead worked out the Drive-in Theater idea by asking himself in the early days of the late depression what luxuries...
Pianist Humby's chief concern in the U.S. is raising money for London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, in which her second brother is chief surgeon. Another concern is broadcasting to Britain by short wave. Pianist Humby hopes that last week's CBS program was heard by her mother, a night rescue worker in London. Miss Humby does not yet know whether her earlier broadcast was picked up where it was aimed-the aircraft carrier Illustrious, whose commander at that time was her brother...