Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Borah was not flattered. He told Dr. Colvin over the telephone: "While I appreciate the compliment, I don't believe the convention should make such a nomination. Such a call, if at all, should result from a great uprising of the people in another convention to be called by the united moral forces of the nation...
...municipal- from less than three billion dollars in 1913 to 14 billions in 1930. As the President left the rostrum, New York's ambitious Roosevelt stepped forward with outstretched hand. "Glad to see you again," said the President as they shook hands. Governor Roosevelt was ready with a compliment: "Very good speech, Mr. President." During the Wilson era the Hoovers and the Roosevelts were fast friends, saw much of each other at Sunday night suppers...
...that date Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro started the revolution which overthrew the late, famed President Augusto B. Leguia, "The Bantam Roosevelt of Peru." The compliment implied by Congress in its retroactive promotion was therefore a most delicate one. Touched, the President signed the Congress' clemency bill, thus making it most probable that he will commute the two death sentences...
...Compliment" to Reed...
James A. Reed has stated that he would "consider it a compliment" to have the Missouri delegation to the convention pledged to him in 1932 as in 1928, but this is scarcely to be taken as placing him in the running as a potential candidate. His influence in swinging his support to some one of the major candidates may prove important, but his past record does not designate him as the logical selection for a deadlocked convention. His reputation rests upon his success as an inquisitor, revealing corruption and discovering rascals by means of Senatorial investigations. He is highly unpopular...