Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colorado to placate public opinion and the company's troublesome miners. Since then the Rockefellers have tried to put good men in charge, keep their own hands off. Yet labor troubles and ups & downs in business have more than once given the Rockefellers cause to regret their Colorado investment. Last week Colorado Fuel & Iron gave the Rockefellers one more cause for regret: with other steel businesses doing nobly, Colorado Fuel & Iron defaulted on its bond interest, passed into receivership...
...later General Johnson marched out of the board room, his pocket bulging with a trade code for the automobile industry which was expected to put 60,000 additional men to work. "That's what I came for and that's what I got." said he. "My one regret is that Henry Ford hasn't signed...
...Hjalmar Schacht, ramrod-backed, high-collared Governor of the Reichsbank, rose for Germany (which went through the world's worst inflation) to snap, with obvious reference to the U. S., "Some countries have deliberately abandoned stable currency, trying to influence economic conditions by monetary experiments. However deeply we regret this, we cannot deny a sovereign state the right to do what it likes...
...Nazi policies. "Dissatisfaction in the outside world toward Germany and the boycott movement are making themselves strongly felt." said he. "This has severely hurt the Hamburg-American Line's business and is continuing to hurt it and German shipping generally. . ". . My colleagues and I are resigning with regret. It is not our way to be leaving the company when things are going badly but developments have left us no choice...
...determination to reform Japan remains unchanged!" cried Prisoner Eitan Goto passionately. "I am prepared to die seven times, but I will" bomb seven times, if necessary, until the country is purified. I regret I caused trouble for the Emperor and disturbed public opinion, but I am prepared to die. I ask to be punished according...