Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...white shirt and linen knickers unsoiled. Capt. Hawks stood grinning in the cockpit, gnawed a sandwich, gulped coffee and water before responding to the welcoming committee. He disclaimed all concern in breaking the old record of 14 hr. 45 min., set by the Lindberghs on Easter Sunday. Said he: "I am not interested in records. It was purely a business demonstration of the possibilities of an aerial pony express. With relays of pilots and fast planes at intermediate points ... I think a schedule of 13 to 15 hrs. could be maintained. . . . The nonstop flight is of no value. Why load...
Said he: "The situation is one to cause a great deal of concern . . . the drought has mainly affected animal feed, the bulk of direct human food production [is] abundantly in hand. Nevertheless there will be a great deal of privation . . . due to the loss of income. . . . The American people will proudly take care of the necessities of their countrymen in time of stress or difficulty...
...twelve District Administrators in Washington, made them his first important speech. Because he had just come from a conference at the White House, his words and manner seemed to many observers to indicate a decided change in Administration attitude toward Prohibition enforcement. Such observers contrasted the personal and moral concern of earlier Prohibitionists, and their sweeping promises, with such staid excerpts from Mr. Woodcock's statement...
Refutation. Prime Amtorg witness was Peter A. Bogdanov, thickset, blue-eyed, bearded Amtorg board chairman. He explained the history of Amtorg? founded in 1924 as a U. S. concern owned by the Soviet Bank of Foreign Trade. In six years, he said, it has bought $580,000,000 worth of U. S. goods for export to Russia, secured $30,000,000 in credits from U. S. banks. Its trade had declined lately as a result of world outbursts against the Soviet's anti-religious program (TIME, March 10) and attacks upon it by Mr. Whalen. A Russian revolutionary since...
Fifteen major bond issues have been floated abroad since 1885 by the Mexican government and the Mexican National Railways (today an insolvent concern). Last week the grand total of these Mexican debts stood at $514,302,000 principal, plus $369,888,000 in accrued unpaid interest. Therefore in the cool Manhattan office of J. P. Morgan & Co. an agreement was signed by Senor Luis Montes De Oca, Mexican Finance Minister. By its terms Mexico's principal creditors (the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico, chairmanned by Thomas William Lamont) agree to accept a "very large" but unspecified...