Word: offending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against it, for oldtime U. S. banking tradition is one of local "unit" independence (the local small-town banker a fatherly financial shepherd to his local flock). Also, for practical purposes, potent bankers have found it prudent to disclaim any intention of becoming more potent lest such designs should offend small bankers who, meanwhile, must be their principal customers. Therefore, the merging-grouping trend had to move until it had half-swept the nation before the A. B. A. dared approve it. And even last week the trend was only partially approved. Branchbanking was endorsed for extremely limited areas only...
Irregular Unions. "In that they [irregular unions] offend against the true nature of love, irregular unions compromise the future happiness of married life, are antagonistic to the welfare of the community and, above all, are contrary to the revealed will...
...their talithim (praying shawls) as they went at sundown to begin the Fast of Ab. Edward Keith-Roach, British district commissioner of Jerusalem, knew this was going on. He ordered admonishing posters prepared and had them fixed to walls. The work was done on Thursday so as not to offend Moslems by having Moslem employes work on Friday, their Sabbath, or by having Jews work on Saturday, their sabbath. His own sabbath, Sunday, was nerve-wracking for him. He was on tip-toe all that day, expecting outbreaks from almost any part of the city...
...felicitations to the World Power Conference. Mr. Insull, it seemed, though not attending the Conference, had been summoned from elsewhere in Europe by some of the U. S. delegates at Berlin, to be their spokesman with the Ambassador. The latter certainly did not wish, it was explained, to offend his hosts by anything he might say at their Conference; hence he would not speak on Power...
...Sibelius, Skriabin. He has been willing to experiment with a Thereminophone in his orchestra (TIME, Dec. 30), to encourage Hans Earth in his pioneering with the quarter-tone piano (TIME, March 3). His interest and energy have made him one of the world's great conductors. He may offend friends and audiences by his increasing arrogance but few have denied his tremendous musical genius...