Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the current session of the Legislature the State Board of Registration introduced a bill which would have eliminated the quantitative requirement in favor of a qualitative standard manipulated by the board. It is no great compliment to the intelligence of the Massachusetts State Legislature to say that that bill was defeated. The Attorney General reflects the legislative attitude when he suggests that either the law must be changed to cut down the number of weeks or the schools must conform to the present ruling. It requires certainly no profound thought to see that if these qualifications for applicants...
...executive who has to do with the public and the management of a great corporation who might not be called a good salesman." Senator Couzens: "I would judge you a better salesman . . . and that is no disparagement of your financial ability." Snapped Mr. Mitchell: "Thank you for the compliment...
Urging the Freshmen very effectively to make the most of their religious opportunities at Harvard, Dean Sperry said: "The University has paid you the compliment of assuming, first, that you are a gentleman, and, second, that you are a man, a man morally and religiously...
...much as I appreciate the compliment that I have "placed the junk business on a dignified plane," it has proved embarrassing because I would be the first to disclaim any such distinction or accomplishment...
...year, campaigning in the West, he flayed the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his sixth cousin, as follows: "He's a maverick! He doesn't bear the brand of our family." In 1924 when "Teddy" was running for the New York Governorship, "Frank" returned the compliment by flaying his remote relative's "wretched record" as Assistant Secretary of the Navy during the oil scandals. At that point all social contact between the Republican and Democratic branches of the Roosevelt family was broken...