Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though he chiefly blamed Political Boss and ex-President Plutarco Elias Calles for the persecution of priests in Mexico, Archbishop Ruiz, just, meticulous, declared that in one respect General Calles and the Holy See see eye to eye. "I do not believe Calles represents any danger to the principle of private property, which the Church likewise supports," observed her Apostolic Delegate, "but he does represent a threat to the Church. . . . Some of Calles' actions, such as the Government distribution of lands to the peons and the establishment of minimum wage laws in industry, have won a good deal...
...Received with high approval and respect a plea in behalf of Britons now in jail for debt from the 1st Baron Snell, an eminent Fabian Socialist whose parents were farm laborers and who relates in Who's Who that he has worked as a "groom, ferryman and potman...
...this respect they do things much better in the United States," said Lord Snell. "Over there last year an American judge expressed to me his admiration for our courts in England, and I was thankful he did not know of the blot* on our system which we have been discussing this afternoon...
...Presidents of the United States, Senators, Justices of the Supreme Court, members of the House of Representatives, governors, mayors, bankers, editors, college presidents . . . leading men of science, Nobel-Prize winners in science and letters, and I have never found one single person, who for talents and character commands the respect of the American people, who has not agreed with me that William Randolph Hearst has pandered to depraved tastes and has been an enemy of everything that is noblest and best in our American tradition. . . . There is not a cesspool of vice and crime which Hearst has not raked...
...Sherman, is an adaptation of the novel in which the late Thorne Smith played with the idea of a scientist who discovered how to turn humans into stone and statues into people, used his trick to revive a group of mythological effigies in a museum of art. Out of respect for the Legion of Decency, Director Sherman and his associates were compelled to clip their wings in following some of Author Smith's imaginative flights. Obviously on the screen it was impossible to have the gods and goddesses visit a Broadway department store completely naked...