Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...plethora of names. For the time being it seemed unlikely that Canada would follow Australia, insist on a native Governor. Strangest suggestion was the converted Boer, onetime South African Prime Minister General Jan Christiaan Smuts. Most likely: either the Duke of York (it is known that King George is anxious for the duke to have administrative training as a possible heir to the throne) or Queen Mary's brother the Earl of Athlone, about to return to Britain after a successful term as Governor General of South Africa...
...wife, beautiful, socially powerful, a teaser. Congressman Carson had left a girl behind in Wisconsin: more worldly-wise than he, Irma Schmultz (for such was her plain name) insisted he keep their engagement secret for awhile. When weeks went by without a letter from him, Irma grew anxious, went to Washington. Daniel reassured her, but soon the truth came out: he was head-over-heels in love with beautiful Mrs. Miller. Irma was heartbroken but gallant. Just in time to save the situation and the Congressman's soul came a curious concatenation of circumstances : the stockmarket crashed and took...
...Mass. Slowly he went about his task of strengthening the company. Inventories were gradually written down to their value. Cash was conserved although it meant passing preferred dividends. No lies were told about the company, and stockholders did not like to hear the truth. Lately Mr. Pierce has been anxious to resign, but it has been difficult to find a man to take his place...
...immediately put the Welfenschatz on public exhibition, first in Frankfort, later in Berlin. Seldom in the past 800 years have people been permitted to see it. Railways ran excursions from all over Germany, from France, Hungary, Poland. Day after day the museums were crowded with throngs of the artistic, anxious to admire the work of Romanesque and Gothic goldsmiths, of the pious, eager to venerate the skeleton arms of St. Lawrence and St. Sigismund, the skull of St. Blasius, the finger of John the Baptist and other anatomical remains...
...large block of its stock, it began to whirl through a period of expansion. Since May 1929 it has lost one-fourth of its deposits; its shares have tumbled from $91 to $13. Recently it has been understood that officials in Washington have been closely watching its affairs, perhaps anxious that no harm should befall a Manhattan bank whose name sounds so significant. While Bank of the United States deposits were dropping 25%, Manufacturers Trust's deposits slumped 15%. In Manufacturers Trust, Goldman Sachs Trading was likewise a dominant stockholder. Obviously complicated were the problems of determining the value...