Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...objections to the University's emergency financial policy. Some of the objections seem valid on their face; all are worthy of consideration. But the one really vital point made in the Union's leaflet is that the problem of reduced University income is one which will in the future concern every member of the Faculty as well as of the student body, and so should "be discussed freely and openly, in a spirit of democratic cooperation befitting one of the nation's leading educational institutions." In other words, the crisis is not simply a signal for fiscal juggling...
While the committee deliberated, workers in 20 defense plants in the U. S. were out on strike. Most of the strikes were little ones, some even insignificant. Of greater concern to observers than any struck plant was the touch-&-go situation at Lackawanna, N. Y., where the long rumble of C. I. O.'s struggle with Bethlehem Steel was gathering into a roar. C. I. O. steelworkers, asserting that 300 fellow employes had been locked out of a coke plant in a dispute over a wage increase, voted to call a general strike in protest. A walkout at Lackawanna...
...abed with the "cold" he caught two weeks ago-a good deal less sick than his 100,000,000 people in featherweight houses had begun to feel. Bed was no place for the Premier at a time like this, and the influential Tokyo Asahi was only echoing the growing concern of the country when it came out and told Prince Konoye so. In the frankest piece of criticism a newspaper has directed at the Premier since he became head of the Government, Asahi said...
...odds the most intense concern of plain folk is food: "The verb 'to eat' is conjugated in every possible way whenever two people meet." By 3 on the afternoon of the day Antwerp fell, huge trucks were hauling the city's two-to-four-year stores back to Germany...
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