Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best time of his life in a visit to America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about as Andrew Volstead. That for the moment is all I can think of to say to America, and I assure you it is a high compliment. Perhaps by the time I next write to you from Cambridge, Eng. (where life, as I have previously indicated, is a round of leisure) I shall have had time to think up some pithy sayings and artless aphorisms about the real America. Meanwhile "for all our thanks"--I must rush...
...National Education Association meeting is a great improvement over your report on the St. Louis meeting, which reached low-water mark in selection of topics for reporting. As a member of the board of trustees, I think the reference to the "tight, autocratic board" is a fine compliment. We regard trust funds as trust funds and safeguard them accordingly...
...underling's pro-French and anti-German attitude. Italy's Benito Mussolini last month abruptly shelved round-eyed, olive-skinned Fulvio Suvich as Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, appointed him Ambassador to the U. S. in place of Augusto Rosso. Last week President Roosevelt returned the compliment, announced that his good friend Undersecretary of State William Phillips would succeed Breckinridge Long as U. S. Ambassador to Italy next autumn. A chronic case of stomach ulcers had forced Ambassador Long to resign...
...present Administration at Washington. If given a direct choice at the fall election between good government and bad government, there can be no doubt as to their decision." As the sole Presidential entrant in Pennsylvania's Republican primaries last week, Senator William Edgar Borah received the compliment of a pencil scratch from more than 300,000 voters. Only 20 of the State's 75 convention delegates had pledged themselves in advance to support the popular choice, were last week reported eager to weasel out of their promise...
...straightforward with you as you have been considerate with me. Basing my conclusions on years of observation. I regret to say that there is probably no group in this city, proportionate to its members, that supplies us with more criminal business than the local Filipino colony. It is no compliment to the predominant race that most crimes committed by Filipinos have as background intimate relations with white girls. Jealousy between rivals for the affections of the same girl leads to assaults, knifings, and shootings; a desire to provide gifts for the objects of their affections offers temptations for thievery...