Word: commendable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commend you for the shining exception to the welter of hypocrisy and deliberate falsification...
Without having read the full content of the editorial I wish to commend the initiative and courage that it took to write such an editorial knowing full well that a storm of protest was sure to follow in its wake. If the people feel that a paper sponsored by Harvard University hasn't the right to handle subject matter pertaining to the American Legion they should familiarize themselves with the list of all America's glorious war dead...
...Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide efficient and sane management of the affairs of Government should commend themselves to every thoughtful citizen...
Next Capone heard the Dade County grand jury refer to him as follows: "We endorse, commend and urge all legitimate efforts to exterminate from this community . . . a cancerous growth. The efforts of State's Attorney Hawthorne toward what is nationally recognized as a menace, a public impostor and an enemy to organized government are of paramount importance. . . . We urge all law-abiding citizens to give their unstinted cooperation to the end that 'Scarface Al' Capone, his accomplices and their sinister influences shall not continue to be inflicted upon . . . Florida...
However much one feels inclined to commend the action of the Sophomore Class officers, there can be little praise for their attempt to let the Smoker die without a hearing before the class. It is reasonably certain that the Sophomores would wholly approve of the decision of their officers in abolishing so futile a custom, but it is regrettable that these officers should feel it necessary to let the Smoker pass away without the bare courtesy of an obituary announcement...