Word: regretting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to honor. . . . The swastika has become for us a holy symbol!" This, Germans considered, completely answered a Jewish judge in Manhattan named Brodsky who recently called the swastika a "pirate flag." Last week U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent the German Government a note of "regret" at the Brodsky incident...
...that faces the college and university authorities of Oxford and Cambridge is how to make an institution pay which has only twenty four weeks income to fifty two weeks expenses in a year. This problem is largely solved by sending in such fantastic bills that the student remembers with regret that the great universities were founded as a refuge and alma mater for penniless seekers of learning in the eighth century of our Lord. Nevertheless, the authorities still find themselves with an empty university on their hands, for a greater part of the year, notably the finest summer months from...
...reviled and vilified Franklin Roosevelt more than Huey Pierce Long. Nevertheless when the President heard that his bitter enemy had been shot in Baton Rouge (see p. 15), he publicly declared: ''I deeply regret the attempt made upon the life of Senator Long of Louisiana. The spirit of violence is unAmerican...
...Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Chargé d'Affaires Engert erased by denying the assertions of the Emperor's own entourage that he expressed himself in violent terms. According to Diplomat Engert the Emperor merely voiced "regret" that Standard Oil is not to lead the U. S. Marines to the rescue...
...common stock within the family, both preferred stock and bonds were sold to the public. Preferred dividends were stopped in 1931 but despite a series of deficits footing up to more than $14,000,000 in four years, bond interest was paid promptly. Last week, however, with "deepest regret," the Browns announced that they would have to default their obligations. They admitted that business was better in the first half of this year but declared that renewed price-cutting following the death of the Blue Eagle plus wage boosts, plus increased freight rates, plus rising raw material costs, had again...