Word: respected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Idaho lawyer who might have dropped back into the dusty puddle of state politics after his glorious defeat went on to Washington, to Congress, to the Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...
...suffered. Their protection against attack is to the British Empire a measure of self-defense. It must be clearly understood that his Majesty's Government in Great Britain accept the new treaty upon the distinct understanding that it does not prejudice their freedom of action in this respect. The Government of the United States has comparable interests, any disregard of which by a foreign power, they have declared that they would regard as an unfriendly act. His Majesty's Government believe, therefore, that in defining their position they are expressing the intention and meaning of the United States...
...must be noted, however, that the policy of the Japanese Government, which consists in maintaining an attitude of strict neutrality towards the contending forces, remains unchanged in every respect, and that should the course of events be such as to render the above-mentioned measure imperative, the Japanese Government will exercise due care to provide against any unfair consequences arising for either of the two opposed parties...
Japan and the other eight nations which signed the Washington Treaties (19-21-22) are thereby obligated: 1.) To respect the sovereignty, the independence and the territorial and administrative integrity of China; and 2.) To refrain from taking advantage of conditions in China in order to seek special rights Or privileges which would abridge the rights of subjects or citizens of friendly states and from countenancing action inimical to the security of such states...
...limitations of the Cornell plan may prove depriving where full success, measured in terms of potentiality, may be only half-success. It will be very much at the mercy of different instructors in the matters of attendance, reading, theses, and the like. In this respect it contrasts with the Reading Period, which insures a certain regular treatment of the interval by all courses that are not either elementary in nature or primarily for Freshmen. The Cornell lecturer can require attendance throughout the period, or he can place his faith where Harvard has, in assigned reading and study emancipated...