Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alcohol, narcotics and un-Americanism, of drumming up fears of Japanese invasion and Communist infiltration, had never forgotten that he was once the No. 1 U. S. Hero. Before he retired, Richmond Pearson Hobson sat self-importantly down, wrote the President of the U. S. a letter announcing his regret that "I am not able to go with you on this Supreme Court fight." Having thus given the President fair warning, 66-year-old Richmond Pearson Hobson slept soundly, ate a hearty breakfast next morning, but toned up his overcoat for the trip to his office, fell dead...
...name of Mack had been put on the ballot even before the petition was received. To those to whom the petition was sent Bacon said in part, "We regret to inform you that this petition was insufficient, and that the names of four of these proposed nominees will not appear on the 1937 ballot...
...about four months of age she left the sanatorium much to our regret for this infant had become the pet of the nurses and doctors. She had been with us six months. . . . She continued to regress until she assumed the foetal posture, breathing gently being her only movement. At this time she was sent to a State hospital where soon she was gathered into the womb of her mother earth to which we all regress soon or late...
...moneyed interests, he helped rewrite California's constitution, helped beat George Hearst for Governor in 1882, helped keep U. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field of California from getting his home State's endorsement for the Presidential nomination in 1884. He had reason to regret that last move after he got into the Sharon-Hill case as Sarah Althea's lawyer...
...reasonable process of solution has been worked out and well established. . . . But the utilities have a right to know what it is that is asked of them and what are the conditions under which peace might be established. A sovereign government should have policies known to all. . . . I regret to say that the power companies in the Tennessee Valley region have not been assured as to what are the intentions of the TVA concerning them...