Word: respecters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead of constantly calling for more pay-it is liberal now, by civilian standards, except where risk is involved-let the military prune out the marginals, alcoholics and incompetents. Let them see that industry is rewarded and lack of it punished . . . [Thus] respect for the uniform will be restored...
...timetable (President Walter Franklin of the Pennsylvania Railroad). One of its alumni, John Reed, 1910, was buried in the Kremlin; another was Horatio Alger, 1852, known to his classmates as "Holy"' ("I shall have to move," said he in his first year, "to where there is more respect for decency...
...accusation of crime must await the decision of a judge as to whether or not he will answer questions asked by the prosecution? It is true that persons other than the accused may be summoned as "witnesses," to give evidence for or against him. And these witnesses are, with respect to their testimony, subject to that final authority of the judge of which the letter speaks. But, in a court of justice, is the "defendant" under the same authority? Presumably, he, too, is capable of being a "witness." He may have information which prosecution and judge and jury could...
...will be up to the individual countries. Argentina's recent law allowing investors to remove only eight percent of the profits they make on their capital investment looks, by comparison to other Latin countries, like the last word in progressive legislation. With a guarantee that the United States will respect internal laws prohibiting complete exploitation, South American countries will have to liberalize their economic regulations to a point that will encourage private investment...
...free society a man can have no duty which is not consonant with the respect which is due him as a moral agent. We can demand only what we can demand morally. Thus we cannot ask a man to give his life, for such an obligation cannot be defined. But we can ask a man to risk his life. And we do in time of war. Similarly, we cannot ask a man to establish his own guilt. But we can ask that he risk trial. And we can ask an innocent man to risk judicial error...