Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week were certain they understood Mr. Coolidge's views on the treaty. This is what the President thinks: the treaty is good, but does not in any sense whatsoever constitute any reason whatsoever for the curtailment of U. S. arms in any degree or respect whatsoever. U. S. soldiers, sailors, marines, guns, battleships, mules, rifles, submarines, forts, gas, are purely defensive. The Kellogg treaty in no way invades a nation's right to defend itself or to prepare to defend itself as much as it may please. "Big Navy" men were relieved. British newspapers expressed more hotly...
Last week the sleek limousine of Lewis Einstein, rich and smart "career diplomat," and U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, was accorded every mark of respect as it wheeled into the courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry. Alighting briskly suave Mr. Einstein stepped within and soon deposited a formal demand from the U.S. State Department that the annual quota set upon U. S. motor cars imported into Czechoslovakia shall be raised this year by a cool...
Noticed your write-up, in TIME dated July 23 about "Tom Heeney." I wish you bunch of "pen pushers" would learn to respect "Old Age." You mention his mother who is 80 years old doing a day's milking well, I just want you to know that it takes a good woman to do a day's milking, and even if she is 80 years old, I bet, she could show some of you birds how to keep alive, why don't you Pen Pushers be "sports" and give the people from the other side a chance...
Normal in every respect were the spoken words of a man from St. Louis, Mo. He sounded exactly like this: "Once there was a young rat who couldn't make up his mind. Whenever another rat asked him if he would like to go out with him, he would answer, 'I don't know...
...complaining, like Hughes, of ill health. Last week, like Hughes a few days prior, Thompson denied that he himself was going to resign. Chicagoans last week talked of putting Vice President Charles Gates Dawes at the head of a consolidated anti-crime commission to rehabilitate Chicago's self-respect...