Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy since 1924 here, retired at the end of the academic year last June. Seventy-five years old, his retirement, when it was announced last December brought comments of praise for the man and regret at his leaving from all over the world...
...father-in-law had acquired it in payment of a debt, incorporated it in 1902. Losing regularly at first, he persuaded Cornelius Vanderbilt, President John R. Hegemen of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and Banker William A. Read to "take a flyer" with $150,000. They never had cause to regret the move-business picked up in 1907, and with the War Victor left its competitors behind. In 1920 it expanded by building a second plant in West Nashville, near Tennessee's phosphate rock quarries. Until then the standard means of extracting phosphorus consisted of mixing the ore with sulphuric...
...stop chanting, they obeyed. When a White House car pulled up with a request to divert the march to the auditorium of the Labor Department, they obeyed again. There they cheered David Lasser's reading of a message from Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, expressing the President's regret that "it is not within our power" to reinstate all the WPA workers already discharged, the President's belief that no more need...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt, who controlled the lucrative transit route across Nicaragua. The deal by which Walker evaded U. S. neutrality laws provided that the Nicaraguan "Democrats" .invite him to send in "colonists." By the time the "Democrat" leaders realized what Walker was up to, it was too late to regret having asked him in. On the military side, Walker was unbeatable. Augmented by a steady flow of recruits from the U. S. (who received free transportation on Vanderbilt boats), he soon appointed himself commander in chief of the Nicaraguan army. Had his judgment been half as good as his luck...
Meanwhile, in Cannes Mayor Nouveau reiterated his story: ". . . I regret to say I am certain now it was Mr. Roosevelt." Upshot of the Cannes Battle of Flowers was a deluge of French editorials, night-club skits and radio songs; in the U. S. a comment by John Roosevelt's mother...