Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with regret, but I would be less than candid if I failed to express my opinion that unemployment is now traceable more directly to Government policy than to anything that business could or should do and that if those policies are not changed, neither business nor Government can ever solve this most terrible of all our problems...
...emergency hookup was arranged so that Mayor Frank L. Shaw could send a message by short wave to San Francisco where it was rebroadcast to the alarmed nation over the Columbia network. Said Mayor Shaw: "We have not suffered a major disaster in any sense of the word . . . regret . . . unfounded reports to the contrary. . . . The sun is shining over Southern California today and . . . Los Angeles is still smiling...
...mood of mingled relief and regret Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy of the U. S. Maritime Commission wrote President Roosevelt last week: "I should like to report in relinquishing my post that the ills of American Shipping had been cured. . . . Candor compels me to say, however, that the shipping problem is far from solved...
Miss Harrison also defended newspaper women by saying that "our newspaper practice led us to suppose that the Harvard Lampoon would have investigated the situation and found both magazine and newspaper open to challenge at Wellesley. We regret that the Lampoon feels inadequate to cope with newspaper women. Their mistake was in not challenging the magazine...
Since face is a matter of high importance in the Orient, the slapping of a U. S. official caused President Roosevelt to spend two hours conferring with State Department officials. U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew at Tokyo was then ordered to obtain an expression of regret from Japanese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kensuke Horinouchi. This Washington officially accepted as "satisfactory," closed the case. Whether the Chinese woman identified any rapists, what happened to her or them, remained unknown to the State Department...