Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Italian airplanes roared and circled above Jarabub. They dropped packets of leaflets by the hundred. The Senussites picked them up and stoically absorbed the information that an Italian army was marching upon them, but that they need fear nothing since the Italian commander pledged himself to respect their holy places and to tolerate their tribal and religious customs...
...fear of being charged with protecting official wrongdoing, most senators have heretofore voted for investigations when irregularity was hinted at. Such an attitude has given the members of the vast bureaucracy, which is the executive arm of the government, a healthy respect for efficiency. Under the Republican plan, proposed investigations must run the gamut of the Committees concerned before being referred to the Senate. Although Senators need not follow the committee recommendation, the temptation exists to use this report as an excuse for quashing an unpleasant inquiry...
Every newspaperman or writer, be he Briton or American, should have a proper respect for exactness and a feeling for the nicely chosen word. Mr. Taylor's criticism, however, is petty haggling to no discernible purpose. TIME'S writers, he says, would get the blue envelope from the average American newspaper editor. Just wouldn't they though! That's one of the reasons TIME is so readable...
Royal Suits Deferred. Pending the enactment of legislation regulating the financial claims upon the States of the German Republic by their former titled rulers, the Reichstag passed a bill last week by the terms of which all suits now pending in the German courts with respect to such claims will be held in abeyance until June...
...Asked if he had any final requests to make, he replied that he had none; and in respect to the ill-fortune that he was about to suffer, said: 'What you are about to do is merely my fate overtaking...