Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise appointment of Webb caused Washington to look with respect to a surprising coincidence of Tarheels in important U.S. fiscal positions. North Carolina's 82-year-old Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton is chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, where all revenue-raising legislation gets its start. North Carolina's Gardner watches over Treasury collections of all U.S. taxes. The expenditures of Government departments are audited by the Comptroller General of the U.S., North Carolina's Lindsay C. Warren...
...Clevelanders respect the memory of Founder Moses for something else: he was the first man with a Cleveland Plan-and Clevelanders dote on Cleveland plans...
...distance in and around Archangel in a car, it is news and is reported as such. Pravda Severa, published in Archangel, carried an item about a doughty citizen who drove for six versts (four miles) with his entire family to attend a local celebration. He has my deepest respect...
Finally stung into action, Minor Statesman May protested that everything he had done had been "for the benefit of my constituents and the war effort and of course I did not profit in any way or respect." A little more to the point was a sharp reminder to Committee Chairman Mead that Andy May had testified before a closed committee last month...
...Thomas Jones decided it was time to leave. His old Quaker alma mater, Indiana's small, earnest Earlham College (enrollment: 450), had offered him its presidency. Behind him in Nashville, slow-speaking, spiritual Thomas Elsa Jones left a tough challenge to his old students: "The Negro will get respect when he does things to command respect...