Word: regards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory of the British Foreign Office that if it is to be prevented, by the Monroe Doctrine, from following its normal policy in dealing with backward countries in such affairs, then the least the U. S. can do is to see to it that the natives maintain a decent regard for Anglo-Saxon property rights...
...What regard the natives had for Anglo-Saxon property rights was last week fairly evident. Waving tiny Mexican flags, 200,000 of them paraded in Mexico City to celebrate their "Declaration of Economic Independence," hail the departure of los Gringos from the oil fields. But if President Lazaro Cárdenas enjoyed the parade, he was not amused by the U. S. silver embargo. Seriously he proclaimed to his people: "We must draw together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy...
...Todd's conclusion in regard to the less savory pastimes was that the "red lights burn brightest in deteriorated or neglected neighborhoods,"* that the cure is not moral indignation, nor character education, but better living conditions...
...unlike the "Old Guard" of the New York Stock Exchange, the members of the Chicago Board of Trade regard themselves as an exclusive club with a divine right not only to deal in grain but also to speculate in it. Just as the Stock Exchange has its SEC, so the Grain Pit has its CEA. But the Commodity Exchange Administration so far has been quite liberal and one of the few limits to speculative activity in grain is a mysterious "gentlemen's agreement" said to have been reached in 1926 by a Kansas city grain merchant named Lonsdale...
...immediate University action is contemplated in regard to the membership of Richard Whitney '10 on the Overseers' Visiting Committee on Economics, it was authoritatively learned yesterday. If the University should decide after Whitney's trial to ask his resignation, it will be the first time that a member of a Visiting Committee has been expelled...