Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have an opportunity to present our side at the trial. I have complete confidence in our courts. . . . I ask only that the public reserve judgment until all of the facts are known. . . . I regret keenly that the Government has found it necessary to place the blot of an indictment on the name of my son, Walter [indicted with two other Annenberg officials on charges of aiding and abetting the alleged evasion...
...closed with an apology by the University's vice president Frederic Campbell Woodward (a Hoover aide with the U. S. Food Administration in 1917): "That statement should never have been made. We have ample assurance that it is absolutely untrue. We not only wish to state our regret but our full confidence that Mr. Hoover's public life stands out for high standards of probity, political honesty and abhorrence of political corruption...
...Great Britain the Government's pleasure was mixed with regret that the U.S. had not gone into action sooner. For earlier in the week at Tokyo, Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie had conceded to Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recognition of "hostilities on a large scale" and the "special requirements of the Japanese forces in China." Although Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain disagreed, to almost everybody else Great Britain had taken a diplomatic licking...
...want to stir up any bitter feeling about foreign nations lying to the west of us, but I do say that I would regret to see further aggression on the part of a nation all of whose admirals and generals seem to look precisely like Roy W. Howard...
...impossible to carry on our economic life today without advertising," but adds: "we must ask ourselves if all the advertising today is wise and necessary." Among other things it credits Mr. Falk's organization with having done much to eliminate unfair advertising practices. Mr. Falk retorts: "We regret that his discussion of [our work] is much too brief. compared with the opposing text, and that it does not change much the previously built-up picture of advertising as a pretty rotten sort of institution...