Word: disrespect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rise of the hand of policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass or otherwise disrespect...
...into the "entire question of law enforcement and organized justice." He tried to subordinate Prohibition in the inquiry, to make it only one of many elements to be scrutinized. To the agenda were added such matters as immigration violations, the jury system, anti-trust statutes, court procedure, narcotics, general disrespect for Law. In the President's re-explanations of the investigation, Prohibition dwindled almost out of sight...
...recently published in the New York Tribune, L. N. Kaplan, manager of the newly-formed organization, points out that merely because Harvard has not been able thus far this year to secure competition for its brain team, is no basis on which to argue that learning is held in disrespect in the colleges...
...formed in Manhattan last week by young lawyers opposing prohibition who promised to defend without charge "worthy cases who may be subject to the heavy penalties provided under that [Five & Ten] law." Seven onetime assistant U. S. District Attorneys signed up. Dry leaders in Washington were enraged at this "disrespect...
...members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth's sake...