Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German bond issue could not be for more than two billion marks, half what the Allies demanded and 1/57 of what Germany agreed to under the Young Plan. Finally von Papen demanded the writing into the formula of a declaration that the bond issue would be in no respect an expiation of German "War guilt...
...Ottawa last week Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett behaved in a manner which correspondents called "rough and almost dictatorial" with respect to the coming Conference. Members of the Cabinet complained privately that Mr. Bennett was excluding them from his confidence. Preparations seemed to be under way to exclude the Press as much as possible from Conference doings...
Miss Turnbach will find Fermata School novel in at least one respect. Late at night twice a week, every able-bodied Fermata girl leaps into special "fire clothes," goes shinnying down a pole for fire drill. (The small boys in Aiken Preparatory School do it too, though most of them fall off sleepily.) Rich Fermata girls do not swagger; all wear green tunics by day. Nor may their parents pamper them; only one meal a weekend is allowed outside of grounds; and no candy except just after lunch in the "candy shop" (an old closet). The school is divided into...
...Papen is the creature of the camarilla headed by his Minister of Defense, Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, few Germans doubted last week. They remembered however that Dr. Br�ning, utterly obscure when first appointed, grew in the 26 months that he was Chancellor into a figure commanding vast respect and not a little liking throughout Europe. Camarilla or no camarilla, intrigue or no intrigue, the German Chancellor today is Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Through his bony fingers pass the affairs of a Great Power. In Switzerland last week he seemed to be finding himself, seemed to be learning...
Stalin: You exaggerate. We have no special respect for everything American. But we respect American efficiency m everything?in industry, in technique, in literature, in life. . . . Among the Americans there are many sound persons physically and mentally, sound in their approach to work, to action. ... In spite of the fact that America is a highly advanced capitalist land, the customs of industry, the habits of production contain something of democracy, which you cannot say of the old European capitalist lands, where the arrogant spirit of feudal aristocracy still survives...