Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several reasons a bad diplomatic situation in Liberia is usually much worse than a bad situation anywhere else: 1) Political respect for 12,000,000 U. S. Negroes requires that the post of U. S. Minister to Liberia shall be held by a Negro, and having a Negro Minister, though stoutly backstopped by a white legation Secretary, does not simplify the art of diplomacy. 2) When the Secretary of State wants to send an emissary to Liberia, he is lucky if there is a ship sailing for the African West Coast within a month, luckier still if the emissary reaches...
...peasants too have begun to disapprove of Japan's policy with respect to China," continued Proletarian Kato. "At first the Japanese peasantry were under the influence of Japanese nationalistic propaganda. However, as a result of the acute agrarian crisis of 1931-32 and the ensuing famine in the northeastern parts of Japan, the peasants have recently grown more rebellious and the number of farmer uprisings has been increasing...
...quietly dispersing. Not rich folk, most of the French gold buyers were humble but trusted representatives of town and village groups or syndicates who felt that temporarily their money would be safest in gold, knew their rights. Since the village innkeeper in France is usually a person of respect and trust, many an innkeeper was in Paris last week buying gold for thrifty peasants who are far from being hicks. Over the panic period stanchly faced by France, her Bank, with So billion francs in gold on hand last month, paid out nearly eleven billion before confidence was presently restored...
...British Empire is very wealthy, very populous and very widespread and we respect it," snapped Il Giornale next day, "but Britain owes her vast Empire not only to the enterprise and worth of her citizens but also to violent conquests which often were not very scrupulous." Next, small-fry Italian papers rehashed the predatory exploits of Britons from Sir Francis Drake to Lord Elgin who stole Greece's most valuable marbles and enshrined them in the British Museum...
Earnestly the new Premier pledged: "The powers that we ask of you respect the organic statutes and the policy of the country! . . . Show your determination to respect the signature of the State and maintain the integrity of our money...