Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favored repealing the inheritance tax, too. Pressure from behind as well as above persuaded Mr. Green to accept a post which he refused last year. Awaiting the Senate's confirmation in his new office, Mr. Green told the House that "in the anticipated event there is much to regret in many ways...
...sales progress the statement said with a lofty wobble, "Business conditions in America were somewhat varied, but the foreign business showed steady growth;" 4) "Surgeons' knives, chisels, office-knives and twine-cutters have been added to our line during 1927;" 5) "We regret to record the death during the year of one of our oldest directors, Mr. William A. Gaston. Mr. John Gaston, his son, has been elected a director to succeed...
...nature of the Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...
...join in the regret of Senator Willis that Hoover has spoiled the unanimity of the Ohio delegates, whose unfaltering adherence to Willis might have gone down into history with Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City...
...think that question is entirely pertinent to this inquiry. ... I regret it exceedingly?and I am really not doing it through any lack of respect to the committee?but I have to decline to answer...