Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When blind Minnesota Senator Thomas David Schall ("it is not eyes that make men") has something on his mind, he must be heard. Last spring (TIME, June 28) he was told by Senator Ashurst, Arizona, that as the years rolled on he would "regret" the speech he was then making (calling his attackers "pettifoggers, blackmailers, skunks"). The Senator from Minnesota proceeded with his speech...
...that the people of the nation, the law-abiding citizens, the honest men and women, the country-loving and God-fearing people of the nation, are entitled to have someone here say that justice has been thrown to the four winds and two big criminals set free. . . . "But I regret to say that it seems that a rich man can not be convicted in courts established by the Harding-Coolidge administration. If a man has money, he has the passport to his freedom. . . . "I thank God that there is a place in the Republic where the representatives of the people...
...Their one regret is that they cannot greet you in this building. Yet there is no building that could withstand the shock of their greeting. And so they are now gathering outside, amid surroundings that have become inseparable parts of their lives, to give you a fitting reception in their own barbaric...
...discover, to my great regret, that a notification of the change in my address has, through unforeseen circumstances, not been forwarded to you. Consequently I have been deprived from the pleasure I had got used to of reading your mighty interesting TIME ever since July 19 of this year...
...Grande do Sul mutinied, and necessitated the despatch of 1.000 federal troops to quell them. Skirmishing continued throughout the week, and recalled the virtual war waged by retiring President Bernardes during 1924-25 against various perpetually rebellious factions in the provincial states. The Government announced last week with regret that in view of this fresh mutiny the "state of siege" declared at Rio de Janeiro in 1924 to permit censorship of the press and detention of political suspects will be continued indefinitely...