Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantage and hold off peace between C. I. O. and A. F. of L., a small voice piped up from the ranks last week. At Sacramento, Calif., 27 A. F. of L. and six C. I. O. local unions got together in a United Labor Council. Purposes: to insure respect for each other's picket lines regardless of affiliation; to ask their national officers to heed Franklin Roosevelt's pleas for Labor peace...
...reticent, solid man who loved painting and fishing and studied little else, Glackens won the respect of several schools and generations. Born in Philadelphia, he began his career as an illustrator for Philadelphia newspapers. McClure's Magazine sent him to Cuba to sketch the Spanish-American War, as Harper's had sent Winslow Homer to cover the Civil War. In toughness, gaiety and all-round draftsmanship, his illustrations, of which the Whitney last week exhibited 35, stood with those of his most gifted Realist contemporaries, John Sloan, Robert Henri, George Luks...
...torn China sent 60 delegates to Madras. Far from being dismayed at the physical damage done to mission buildings during the war, Chinese Christians rejoice in the new respect which Chinese soldiers and people have come to feel toward Christian missionaries. A decade ago, missionaries bore the brunt of China's hatred of foreigners, but are now welcomed wherever there are Chinese masses in need...
...almost irreparable to Lithuania. But Lithuania had some friends left, however ineffective. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that the French and British Embassies in Berlin had been instructed to express the official hope that the German Government "will use its influence to insure respect" for the 1924 Memel Statute finally giving the district to Lithuania...
Though America is still far from clicking, retiring President Charles R. Hook felt justified in remarking: "I believe in all sincerity that our activities during the past year have brought industry and the Government substantially closer to mutual understanding, respect and cooperation...