Word: respectibility
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Declared Secretary Ickes: "The proper curiosity of the American public with respect to the Landon-Hearst alliance will not be denied. Mr. Hearst is on such intimate terms with the candidate that he can even venture ... to express his opinion as to what he believes the Governor feels. ... Up to the time that Mr. Hearst made his historic visit to Topeka, Governor Landon was an ardent New Dealer. Apparently a Hearst silencer had been applied to him. How otherwise explain the Republican candidate's elocutionary efforts? He may 'condemn' in conventional fashion, he may 'view with...
...LaFollette of Wisconsin who had invited him to a Progressive conference in Chicago: "In this campaign we must choose between President Roosevelt or Governor Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired...
Recommendation: This worker has no self-respect nor any for his wife. His salary is a detriment instead of a help...
...called the President a liar.' Then I would tell them, 'We have erased that blemish.' I wiped that slate clean before I sailed for Italy. I urged him not to use expressions such as calling the President a 'liar,' because it failed to show respect for an office which deserves _______ respect. After I had discussed this with Father Coughlin he apologized to the President. I sent him word from here to continue his work so he might not be misled by misrepresentations which have been published concerning the purpose of my visit here...
Brilliant and saturnine "Van," as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and many another British bigwig call him with affection and respect, is Permanent Undersecretary and real boss of the Foreign Office. The old diplomacy at its best, adapted to 1936, is his profession, and with Sir Robert at their elbow a succession of British Foreign Secretaries have finally seen the facts of British weakness and the necessity of most painfully kowtowing to Italy and Germany until Britain shall have Might again. In recent weeks, to watch Captain Anthony Eden, His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, strolling...