Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition?"A treaty is being negotiated with Great Britain with respect to the right of search of hovering vessels. To prevent smuggling, the Coast Guard should be greatly strengthened and a supply of swift power boats should be provided. The major sources of production should be rigidly regulated, and every effort should be made to suppress interstate traffic. With this action on the part of the national Government and the cooperation which is usually rendered by municipal and State authorities, Prohibition should be made effective...
...passed by 408 votes to 127, thus completely reversing the minority vote of two days previous. This so moved M. Charles Bernard, a Deputy for Paris, that he said: "M. Poincaré swings this Chamber around as easily as Mussolini does Italy's, but with somewhat more tact and respect...
...justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission to take up the cudgel for the League as a leader of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. Judge Clarke had become convinced of the importance of the work of educating the public mind in this respect. He considered it of more value to his country and to humanity than his work as justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Commission...
...other teams in the League, Lincoln Inn. Tennis and Racquet, B. A. A., and the Harvard Club stand out. All have stars in their line-ups, although the Tennis and Racquet excells in this respect. Presenting a team including Peabody, an ex-National Champion, Hutchens, a former State Champion, and Bradlee, University Champion three years ago, the Tennis and Racquet Club seems unbeatable. Yet, it lost 3-2 to the B. A. A., which showed a strong and well balanced line...
President Coolidge has, however, the almost universal confidence of the business community, and his unusual power of silence has so far won him respect and trust rather than fear or misgivings. If vetoing is required, most business men believe he can and will veto...