Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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About 40, Motty Eitingon must concern himself with such problems as the supervision of a Polish subsidiary engaged in the textile industry, proper handling of a $16,000,000 fur contract with the U. S. S. R., preservation of secret dye formulas. He has, however, plenty of time for relaxation, which he divides between a home on Park Avenue, and another in Leipzig. Riding, music, are his hobbies; generosity his outstanding characteristic. To satisfy his riding urge he keeps a string of horses in Manhattan. He is said to have been the patron of the violinist Benno Rabinov. His spending...
Felix. On his oil field tour Secretary Wilbur saw for himself one of the defects of voluntary agreements. Just outside the Kettleman Hills "shut-in" is operating the Felix well of Petroleum Securities Co. (a Doheny concern), wasting 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant...
Lions, elephants and hippos are photographed charging at attractive little Mrs. Johnson and her steady gun. The only silly shots concern some Boy Scouts who join the party for no apparent reason. Best shot; a lion who makes himself look like the lions in Trafalgar Square...
...resultant of forces and itself a force. Being a force, it permits no Nirvana-like rest to those who enjoy it or cherish it, or are responsible for it; it must be continuously fed, from time to time stimulated; must at all times be the object or fostering concern. Peace, in short, in Mr. Hoover's conception, must be the beneficiary of an activity and of an expenditure of care and energy which is the equivalent of what we call, in the case of war, preparedness. This conception of peace was more likely to occur to a man of science...
...time engage in activities of one kind or another which tend to make John Harvard look a bit silly. For one with so many proteges, this is to be expected and must needs be tolerated, but there is no reason why such activities should arouse any great amount of concern...