Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sense of Duty. A reporter said: "Some Republican leaders have suggested that if you are able, you might run again out of a sense of duty?" The President replied: "Well, I certainly sincerely trust that all of my actions in respect to public duty over the past 40 years have been inspired and directed by my own sense of duty, so of course that would have something to do with it . . . But where does the sense of duty point, and who determines what the duty is? That is a very tricky question...
...country is at peace. Our security posture commands respect. A spiritual vigor marks our national life. Our economy, approaching the 400 billion-dollar mark, is at an unparalleled level of prosperity. The national income is more widely and fairly distributed than ever before. The number of Americans at work has reached an all-time high. As a people, we are achieving ever higher standards of living-earning more, producing more, consuming more, building more and investing more than ever before...
...hefted the 700-lb., hammered copper casket out of Lawrence Quinn's Funeral Home in Jersey City, a solemn voice called out to the pressing crowd: "Hats, men." Of the hundreds on the sidewalk, only four men were seen to lift their hats as a final gesture of respect toward Frank Hague, who died last week at 81. He was the last of the great machine bosses and the most absolute of them all. On a salary that never exceeded $8,500 a year during his eight terms as mayor of Jersey City, he came to reckon his personal...
Jersey City was just the place for Hague. Its citizens were mostly immigrants who had in common only their bewilderment at the strange ways of American democracy and their Old-World respect for the authoritarian hand of the state. Autocratic Frank Hague rose from constable to city hall custodian to membership on the Street and Water Board to city commissioner. In 1917 Hague took over as mayor, and two years later he struck for state power by successfully backing Edward I. Edwards for governor of New Jersey. By 1922, when he was elected Democratic national committeeman, Hague was recognized...
Fullerton said: "We have a lot of respect for their depth and speed." But each was speaking of the other's charges. The two teams clash tomorrow in Watson...