Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed the "grave concern" of the U.S. Government, and the State Department finally wrung from the Czech foreign office a promise that U.S. officials could interview the imprisoned soldiers. A hardbitten old sergeant from the pair's old outfit, the 6th Armored Cavalry Regiment, voiced his own position more succinctly. Said he: "If them lunkheads is spies, I'm Mata Hari...
Wedding Presents. B. H. &G. is the major moneymaker of Des Moines's huge Meredith Publishing Co., a family-owned concern which during its last fiscal year netted $2,862,276. Among the Meredith publications: Successful Farming (circ. 1,200,000), beamed at prosperous Midwest farm families, and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, which has sold 3,000,000 copies (87,000 so far this year). Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again. It needed more space to house its peak staff (1,446) and five...
...appear before committees of the legislature to protest against segregation or to support anti-lynching bills. To Texans, his favorite tactic seemed to be tactlessness. Once, when a member of the legislature asked him what he was studying at the state university, he snarled, "That is none of your concern." The angrier the legislators got, the more Addington seemed to like...
Affiliations of Harvard professors with "Communist front" movements has caused serious concern in Washington, Griffin says. He claims that University teachers and graduates have "influenced high government policy since the beginning of the New Deal...
...good deal of the trouble, he decided, can be traced to the school, where there is too much concern with making education "easy" and with teaching only "interesting" subjects. Thus "the years of life when memory is at its most active . . . are largely wasted, and a great deal of what could profitably be done at school is left to be done in college . . . One obvious example of this is in languages ... Modern languages in America are in danger of following the dead languages into total neglect...