Word: respectable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local enforcement agencies; 2) to call on the press to support enforcement; 3) to call conventions of local enforcement agencies to formulate definite programs with Federal aid; 4) to call upon prosecuting attorneys of the states for full assistance; 5) to adopt any possible means to increase the respect of the people for the law; 6) to have full coöperation with Federal authorities in these activities...
...only one respect are the two productions absolutely equal that is in the number of bootleggers in each production. The members of the play committee were particularly careful to explain that these unconstitutional characters had nothing to do with liquor. But some one had to step through sliding panels to steal the family silverware, and so the authors decided that it might just as well be bootleggers...
...With respect to motor equipment, the policy has been adopted that we must depend upon commercial motor vehicles, which can be produced in great quantities and in a minimum amount of time. This policy is a practical war and peace measure, because the government does not have to rely on its power of establishing in a short period of time a tremendous industry for manufacturing specialized motor equipment, but can fall back on the large normal output of private industries...
...until he became editor of the Daily Chronicle that he made bis name in the newspaper world. Under him the Daily Chronicle was accounted the best journal in London from every point of view, and since those days Mr. Massingham has acquired a great deal of respect and even admiration in newspaper and literary circles. Nor was this popularity confined to Liberal thought, as was shown recently by the acceptance of articles from Mr. Massingham by J. St. Loe Straehey, editor of The Spectator, which used to pose as Liberal-Unionist, but is now distinctly Conservative in tone. Many...
...armaments by agreement laid down by it. It stands for the full acceptance of the implication of the 5-5-3 ration; that is that the United States should not only Keep within the limits of the treaty but that it should maintain its naval strength in every essential respect as permitted under the treaty...