Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealing evenly and directly with all his students, to shift the onus of making difficult decisions over to other people, perhaps to that mysterious body known as the Administrative Board. In view of the fact that much of a dean's effectiveness depends on the position of respect or disrespect in which the undergraduates hold him, it might be well to give the lesser officials in University Hall a little more authority in routine matters...
...part of the Advisor to talk over the various decisions", its practice has brought much disappointment to first-year men. Coming from distant states and new to university life they rightly expect some mature, personal guidance. That they do not get this assistance is indicated by the cynical disrespect which most upperclassmen hold for the system, a feeling epitomized in the classic farewell of advisor to advice--"Drop in again any time. Next April, for instance...
...without a Speaker, the House was called to order by Clerk South Trimble less than twelve hours after Joe Byrns had breathed his last. By a plan which Democratic leaders had agreed on few minutes before, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor promptly rose, declared: "With no disrespect to our beloved Speaker who has left us, it becomes necessary, in order that the House may function and the machinery of government may not stop, that the House proceed to the election of a Speaker." On Chairman O'Connor's motion, a subdued chorus of "ayes" made...
...progressive young rank&filers. Of late, however, old Mike Tighe has spent more&more time brooding by his fireside, leaving direction of the union to artful Secretary-Treasurer Louis ("Shorty") Leonard. Last month delegates to Amalgamated's annual Convention at Canonsburg, Pa. made quite clear their disrespect for Tighe's leadership by voting 2-to-1 for industrial unionism, but reserved control of the organization drive by ignoring President Lewis' cash offer. Vainly hoping to settle the question without offending either side, a committee of Amalgamated officials last week junketed to Coshocton, Ohio to see William Green...
...many speakers would have been able to surpass this, but for Orator Hitler in his bellowing frenzy of last week the job was easy. "I am indifferent," he cried, "to compliments, threats, warnings, disrespect or disapproval. With trance-like surety, I go the way on which Destiny guides me. . . . Therefore, with His grace. I will act for the Germans and their interests. . . . Nobody shall tell me there is such and such an international institution that I must respect...