Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON -- Congressional concern over reports that German "fifth columnists" are active in South America was reflected tonight in an announcement by Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., of the House Committee on un-American Activities, that its inquiry would be extended to the entire Western Hemisphere...
...great difference marked off last week's scenes from those that had gone before. Facing the thought of an Allied defeat, pondering on the fate of Dutch possessions near U. S. shores, few U. S. citizens doubted that Europe's total war was an overwhelming U. S. concern...
...curiosities of raw material exports were scrap tin and wood pulp, which the U. S. must buy abroad. Despite growing national concern over the lack of a domestic tin stockpile, U. S. exports of tin plate scrap were $19,872,000 for the quarter, up 361% from 1939. The quarter's exports of wood pulp, just before the outbreak of the Scandinavian war, jumped from 17,731 tons last year to 74,161 tons...
Despite the undercurrent of seriousness and concern occasioned by the war crisis in Europe, the forty-third annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs got under way with a generally festive spirit, and the hilarious manual of Dr. Ralph S. Foss '03 set the tone for the gathering from the start...
...forms of religion, and with a resurgence of brutal oppression and calculated horror to an extent unknown for centuries," O'Brien said, "some of us have become seriously disturbed by the activities of those leaders of public opinion who in increasing numbers are urging that these matters are no concern of the Americans, that expression of resentment are both futile and dangerous, and that any widespread discussion of these happenings might lead to dangerous states of emotion...