Word: respective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffering continuous humiliations at the hands of a bad government and alive to their sovereign prerogatives, not permitting themselves to fear the bombastic resistance on the part of the government, have been able to do their duty and to enforce their own civic opinions and thereby cater to foreign respect...
...Silence! Respect!" The coup d'etat in Rio de Janeiro, contrary to many U. S. newspaper stories and headlines last week, was not featured by the resignation of venerable, white-bearded President Washington Luis. What happened was this: at 1 p. m. Federal General Tasso Fragoso and Federal General Jaoa de Deus Menna Barreto, both natives of Rio Grande do Sul, approached the presidential palace at the head of a body of officers, announced that they and virtually the whole body of federal officers in the capital had decided to take over the government as a military junta...
General Fragoso appeared in a trice, escorted President and Cardinal through a mob which began to jeer. "SILENCE! RESPECT!" roared General Fragoso. Respectfully silence came. The deposed President was conducted to the fortress of Copacabana. He did not resign last week, but his presidential term expires Nov. 15 in any case...
...Heaven" alone was privileged to offer sacrifice to Heaven, Earth and the Great Ancestors. The bulk of the Chinese rabble scarcely had a religion. What they believed was that by tricks and spells one could ward off devils, and that it was dangerous not to respect one's omnipresent ancestors. Thus had Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism deteriorated. But Christianity had appeared to "revive" these lowly Chinese. Last week the most exalted man in China, General Chiang Kaishek, president of the Nationalist government, became and was baptized a Christian; to be exact, a Methodist...
...does matter very much to the whole constitutional structure of our country and its institutions that the President of all the people, who is called by virtue of his great office to respect the religious rights of all, congratulates one particular religious body on the changes it introduced from older conceptions of religion and government and declares that we as a nation should commemorate the Protestant persons and the events from which 'these mighty forces shaping our country have sprung...