Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With "extreme regret" President Hoover lost a fourth member of his original Cabinet last week. Chicago's Robert Patterson Lamont resigned as Secretary of Commerce.* Next day Charles Michael Schwab, Bethlehem Steel's chairman, announced that Mr. Lamont would be elected president of the American Iron & Steel Institute...
Replied Chief British Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz. "To my great regret. I do not see how any action of mine could ad" vance the cause of peace or good understanding between England and Ireland...
Quick to express regret were CNR's employes, among whom Sir Henry was especially popular. "During Sir Henry's stewardship," their spokesman said, "cooperation between labor and management . . . has been developed to a degree unsurpassed anywhere in the railroad industry. Sir Henry leaves behind him one of the finest monuments in human relations ever erected in large scale industry...
...intensely regret these major provisions . . . committing the Federal Treasury to the expenditure of from $500,000,000 to $1,200,000,000 for non-productive public works. . . . Any study will indicate their pork-barrel characteristics. . . . They are wasteful . . . not economically needed ... a squandering of public money. ... A deficiency [will be] created in the Budget [which] cannot be disguised by accounting phrases. . . . Ve have worked for four months in heart- breaking struggle to balance the Budget. ... To start now to break Federal credit will result in the eventual unemployment of far more men than this comparatively few benefited. . . . There is. however...
...estate. He proposes marriage to Drusilla Crowninshield. an old flame of his, marries her daughter Sydna instead. Drusilla knows him of old: "You really are an outrageous man. . . . You appear to people who don't know you as a most conventional man. but you really stick at nothing and regret little...