Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the officers in King Arthur's army by family as described by Mark; Twain. But foreign public opinion of this country depends on our representatives. An ambassador like the late Walter Hines Page is more valuable in promoting friendly relations than any number of treaties. The act of respect which the British people are paying him, by placing a tablet to his memory in Westminster, suggests how much the highest type of diplomacy can affect the good feelings of one nation toward another. The whole foreign service should be kept a the same level; no political favoritism should interfere...
When such ill-advised measures become laws, their enforcement casts the shadow of their own insignificance on other laws, made wisely and rationally. The effect is to cause disregard of the whole mass of legislation. While the statutes are laden with these trivialities, respect for the law, for its own sake, can hardly be demanded...
...suggest another answer: it gives them a chance to make sure that their first choice is correct, and that they have chosen work in which they can find continued joy. Dilettantism in the college, a tendency to try a little of everything, is much condemned; but, in one respect, there is still a word to be heard in its favor...
...respect to the general money market, the raising of the New York rate has another and even deeper significance. The classical law of rediscount banking is to keep the rediscount rate above the open market rate, in order slightly to penalize rather than subsidize the bank applying for the rediscount...
Said The Christian Science Monitor: "It is not difficult to draw from both journalists and theatrical history illustrations of the fact that decency pays, not only in self-respect, but in cash...