Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving you tonight with great regret. There is one thing, however, that I shall remember, and that is that it was two people who invented the New Deal-the President of Brazil and the President of the United States." Then driving happily down to the waterfront with an escort of red-white-&-blue uniformed guards Franklin Roosevelt put to sea on the Indianapolis, while fireworks said farewell to him from the summits of Sugar Loaf, Corcovado, Gavea, Tijuca...
...turned into a farewell tour. When newshawks caught up with them at Memphis, Henry Wallace loyally declared: "You know. Rex has been one of the most vigorous fighters for the capitalistic system that I know of. ... Men of Tugwell's courage and insight are rare. We shall all regret that he is no longer in Government...
Paulino Uzcudun, the oldtime Spanish boxer with the hairy chest and concrete chin, was reported busy with a speedboat last week rescuing White civilians from Red ports. "My only regret," said he, cuddling a submachine gun, "is that in war I can't use my fists." Spain's No. 1 football forward, Ricardo Zamora, was throwing hand grenades last week and various bull fighters were engaged en both sides at Madrid. "The Great Belmonte" had stopped fighting bulls to become a rural policeman...
...long and twice as funny, and dealing with events that were as inconsequential as those that Hammond recorded were important. Saying he "would not be so brash'' as to attempt an autobiography, John Gordon Baragwanath gives an "autobiographical minimum" that is so interesting readers are likely to regret he did not add more to it. Son of the pastor of Grace Methodist Church in Manhattan, he was inspired to study mining engineering by Richard Harding Davis' Soldiers of Fortune. Young Baragwanath sailed for Ecuador as soon as he got out of college, hoping to emulate Davis...
...eighteenth century. It was the avenue to public opinion and, most significant of all, public opinion, even with an unreformed House of Commons, became something that had to be carefully reckoned with. Professor Laprade's narrative of these years is admirably solid and detailed. Some, perhaps, will regret his almost too scrupulous adherence to detail. Generalizations on the significance of the mass of facts he presents are largely left to the reader. Readers accustomed to more indulgence will be disappointed. But the facts are a mine of interest which no student can wish or afford to overlook...