Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...
...understand that the University's statement issued on April 6 has been misconstrued in some quarters as a reflection on your teaching capacity and scholarly ability. I very much regret this. No such reflection was intended; the statement in my opinion cannot justly be taken as implying that you are not an able teacher or scholar. All that was meant or implied was that your political views and activities outside the University had nothing to do with the decision and that the choice among several candidates was made according to academic criteria...
Forth-two American Rhodes Scholars studying at present in Oxford addressed an open letter to President Conant expressing regret at the dismissals of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy, it was learned yesterday...
...statement expressed regret that the circumstances surrounding the dismissals were cause to "fear that liberty of opinion is being curtailed." Three Harvard graduates of the Class of 1934 signed, daniel J. Boorstin, Richard M. Goodwin, and Richard B. Schlatter...
...letter ran as follows: "We, the undersigned American Rhodes Cholars, firmly believing in the principle of free inquiry in American universities, and hoping that the great privately endowed institutions might be foremost in upholding that freedom, regret that Harvard has given cause by the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of Dr. J. R. Walsh an Dr. A. R. Sweezy to fear that liberty of opinion is being curtailed...