Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thanks of both Wets and Drys by saying the W. C. T. U. has a "crafty old head" in Mrs. Ella A. Boole (TIME, July 18). You have furnished the Wets another opprobrious and abusive epithet for women, of whom you mention three, whose title to honor and respect no Wet seems able to understand...
...mind that we have funds which are to be expended not in lieu of State or local relief but to be supplemental thereto, if, when, and as necessary. "We feel persuaded that the Legislature of Pennsylvania and its several political subdivisions have not done their full duty with respect to furnishing funds for relief purposes. . . . We shall defer action until we know what the Legislature will do for the relief of its own people...
Canada's proposal contained four offers and a stipulation. Offers: 1) to maintain existing free lists in respect to Britain and to increase their value by imposing against foreign countries duties on products at present free to all; 2) to place on the free list with Britain many articles in which Britain competes with other countries, maintaining the duties against the other countries; 3) to increase the preferential spread in Britain's favor by a) lowering the present preferential duties paid by British commodities or b) by increasing the duties paid by foreign commodities, or both...
...insured his life for $500,000 with the Warm Springs (Ga.) Foundation as the beneficiary. . . . His lameness which is steadily getting better has no more effect on his general condition than if he had a glass eye or was prematurely bald. ... If he were a weakling in any respect he could not have gone through two gruelling campaigns for the Governorship of New York. . . Governor Roosevelt might be handicapped in a footrace but in no other way need he fear comparison with his adversary...
...Mother Country, in the Irish Free State and in South Africa an assembled U. S. product (such as a motor car) can now get by as "British" with an Empire content of only 25%. New Zealand like Canada stipulates 50%. Australia is the most patriotic of all in this respect...