Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Senator Walter F. George of Georgia declared: "I am absolutely certain that a 12? cotton loan on the 1935 crop will be approved and announced within 36 hours." Echoed Georgia's other Senator, Richard B. Russell Jr.: "I am expecting the announcement hourly. My only regret is that the loan will not be more than 12? -say 14? or 15? a Ib." Undeterred by the fact that his two Georgia colleagues had been proved poor prophets, Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead last week stoutly asserted: "I think a 12? loan is absolutely sure. I have...
...billion in gold from the Bank of Italy's reserves of five and a half billions. Though a desperate expedient, such withdrawal of gold from behind the lira would, paradoxically, prevent its fall on foreign exchange, because the world markets would not be glutted with lira offerings. With regret...
...charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable settlement of major proportions was at hand. Last week it arrived. After chats with Producer Schenck and Fox President Sidney Kent, Winfield Sheehan announced that he had tendered his resignation. Said Mr. Kent: ". . . It was accepted with regret. I and the corporation extend our best wishes to Mr. Sheehan. . . . This matter has been settled amicably. . . ." Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad...
...promptly and explicitly any precise or definite opinion which I may be charged with having declared of any Gentleman. More than this cannot fitly be expected from me. ... I trust, on more reflection, you will see the matter in the same light with me. If not. I can only regret the circumstances; and must abide by the consequences...
...When I myself hear the word 'Englishman,' the instinctive portrait evoked is that, I regret to say, of Strube's Little Man [see cut].* I see a small, kindly, bewildered, modest, obstinate, and very lovable little person. . . . Upon this first impression a more noble presentation imposes itself, and the contours of Strube's Little Man expand and strengthen into the firm, fine features of Mr. Stanley Baldwin. In some such outward semblance do I visualize the solidity, the good humor, the honesty, the inconsequence, and the indolence of our race...