Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judicial Code as amended, Section 260?Title 28 United States Code 375?I tender my resignation as Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. The condition of my health makes it a duty to break off connections that I cannot leave without deep regret after the affectionate relations of many years and the absorbing interests that have filled my life...
...served him long and loyally overseas. "With the greatest reluctance" he allowed Dwight Filley Davis to step out of service as Governor General of the Philippines. The news of the retirement of Charles Gates Dawes as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's produced "great regret" at the White House. Reason in both cases: pressing personal affairs...
...directors were discussing what to do with their stocks. Errett Cord was silent until someone asked him what he thought. He answered: "I think the stuff you own is lousy and a hunch of hooey. Throw it all out." Shocked, the directors ignored his advice, to their everlasting regret. He resigned soon afterward...
...recognize that after nearly five years of uninterrupted, fecund activity you have almost the right to ask a change in order to re-enter the ranks of the Black Shirts. It is not without regret, however, that I fulfill your desires...
Suprise and regret are expressed at the tendency of goods to revert to pre-war prices, but it is apparently only the natural reaction from abnormal war conditions. The price level rose rapidly during the war. Then followed an inflationary period when the credit of all nations was put to test and in most cases failed. During and after these times occurred an amazing attempt of the industrially advanced states to maintain exaggerated values in terms of money, upon the theory that prosperity depended upon high prices of finished products, securities, and land. At the same time improved processes...