Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presidential politics was barred from the conference, nevertheless the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York's Democratic Governor, kept shuttling back & forth in its news. It took two telegrams and a long distance telephone call for the Governor to convey to Senator Norris the full measure of his regret at being absent. Said the final message: "I am much disappointed. ... I need not tell you of my real interest in the subjects you will discuss. . . . May I call your attention particularly to the water power policy of this State, to our agricultural program and the new land utilization policy...
When the Vestal Copyright Revision Bill was choked to death (along with much other legislation) at the filibustered end of the 71st Congress (TIME, March 16), much regret was felt by all persons interested in bringing U. S. Copyright into line with that of the rest of the civilized world as embodied in the International Copyright Union (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works). A group which had special reason to resent the filibusterings of Senators King (Utah), Dill (Washington) and Thomas (Oklahoma), was the First Church of Christ, Scientist...
...Press. It permitted several eminent men of letters to wonder about the state of society if Booth had missed Lincoln, or if the Moors had won in Spain. The result is a very entertaining little volume of essays which will offer a pleasant evening and perhaps, occasional moments of regret. It must have been a truly delightful task that these men undertook, for no scholar can find them in error...
...Chichibu, the Emperor's eldest brother, and Crown Princess Setsuko. Although married for more than two years, they have been obliged by rigid etiquet to have no children, lest they should have a son discourteously ahead of the Emperor. Thus with the greatest national and most exquisitely personal regret it was learned that the babe born last week is another girl. She was at once presented with a short sword, nine and one-half inches long, a symbolic gift from her thwarted father the Emperor, Son of Heaven...
Among the letters in the Feb. 23 issue of your magazine is an interesting inquiry: "Did this country ever apologize to any nation before in the course of its history?" There have been numerous occasions when our government has been magnanimous enough to express regret over international unpleasantness. Reference to any secondary school textbook would provide many such instances but I would like to mention that Daniel Webster apologized to Spain for the defacing of a portrait of Queen Isabella in New Orleans and that Seward, upon the advice of Lincoln and Sumner, made a similar gracious gesture to England...