Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt, in a dozen speeches, said no responsible government would break a covenant in respect to meeting its obligations in gold. Yet that is just what he did do. The answer to this charge of inconsistency is that 'he is trying to do something.' (Laughter) . . . The President has said this whole plan is an experiment; that if it does not succeed he will know it sooner than anybody else and then will try something else; that he intends to keep on trying this, that or the other policy just as long as there is any thing left...
...Yale's famed field house, who had wanted to leave Texaco for the last six months. Oilmen nodded knowingly at Texaco's explanation of the real reason for Mr. Holmes's present accusation: "Mr. Holmes's resignation was not due to differences of opinion in respect to ... policies but to his intolerant attitude towards his executive staff, members of the board . . . and the executive committee. His domineering, arrogant methods not only antagonized Governmental authorities but also executives of companies with which we have business relations. By his arbitrary and unreasonable conduct, he was rapidly destroying...
Answering a query in respect to the trend in music at the present time, Ramona declared, "New York beer gardens are doing as much as any other one factor to effect the transition toward European popular music. They play German and Viennese waltzes almost exclusively, you know, and the public likes them. I'm only surprised that this type of music has not made greater progress already, because New York is certainly waltz-minded; and as New York goes, so usually goes the rest of the country in this respect...
...With due respect to "Golden Harvest," a sailor comedy with Eugene Palette is the high light of the program. It seems that there has been a big lottery. Unbeknownst to himself a sailor with an anchor tatooed on his chest holds the winning ticket. A band of unscrupulous racketeers seeks to learn the identity of this child of fate and employ the services of a shapely blonde...
...Societe Astronomique de France, which was awarded to him this summer. The Prix Janssen was named for a distinguished French astronomer of the nineteenth century whose outstanding discovery was that of the method of observing solar prominences without total solar eclipses, a contribution of great importance in respect to studies...