Word: respecter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parliament to sit this week, confident that the Centre and Right would respond to any reasonable demands he might make to implement his "Three Year Plan" of internal and external bulwarking. And to the French people he broadcast: "What triumphed today was the principle of the Republic itself-its respect for law, its respect for the right to work and its respect for the nation. The French people showed that they realized that their liberties were not threatened by the Government...
...understood that the best guarantee of liberty is the authority of the State, and that is why you refused to strike against the Republic, which is the mother of the right to organize labor as well as other privileges of a free government. ... I said that I would enforce respect for republican law. It was respected...
...long lifetime he gave $530,000,000 to individuals and institutions and even more to his own family (in 1921 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held $410,674,000 in Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels he gave away were stuffed into his trouser pockets every morning by his valet, $5 a day. Bestowing them, he always admonished: "Save...
Must the ghost of Harvard return from the grave to render him his due? It is an insult to him and a slothful blotch on the self-respect of his current sons not to keep him polished up in winter as in spring...
King Winter has seized the diadem. He now reigns supreme in all his white, icy glory. But with all due respect to the sovereign, some of his actions are proving most perilous to his reverent subjects in the University...