Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legislation. "The Congress has before it legislation partially completed in respect to Muscle Shoals, bus regulation, relief of congestion in the courts, reorganization of border patrol in prevention of smuggling, law enforcement in the District of Columbia. . . . It is desirable that these measures should be completed. . . . There are a number of questions which, if time does not permit action, I recommend should be placed in consideration . . . for subsequent action." Here the President briefly outlined the following subjects: 1) regulation of interstate electrical power; 2) consolidation of railways; 3) revision of the anti-Trust laws; 4) repeal of the capital-gains...
...Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor Act). He had not fought for strikes and boycotts and against company unions. Hence he would be acceptable to Business...
...only one respect could Professor Ramzin's confession be called defective. He admitted that on his trips to London and Paris he never actually talked face to face with the men he named as the brains and backers of the plot: Oilman Sir Henri Deterding, Raymond Poincare who during some of the visits was Prime Minister of France, Lord Churchill* and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand...
...Roper sent Princeton elevens on the road to gridiron fame and to not a few victories over the Crimson and over the Blue. His retirement at the close of the late football season leaves him with a reputation of having won, in addition to a great many games, the respect of those universities which at one time or another met his teams on the athletic field. In the chronicle of Princeton football one can expect to find Bill Roper's name in much the same high place that Percy Haughton's occupies at Harvard...
...dramatic instruction at Harvard. There have been many difficulties encountered and successfully overcome which have arisen from the awkward nature of dramatic expression. The lack of funds, however, has been the chief drawback to the development of the school, and with the situation now much better in this respect there is every reason to expect a substantial increase in the facilities for production and teaching...