Word: regardless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dachshund was popularized by the American and English people, and regardless of the country of origin of the breed, the treatment of this dog brands the malefactors as unAmerican, unChristian, and a disgrace to the human race. I am a dachshund owner and I might further state that my dog is a better dog than any of us are men. He has never knowingly harmed anyone. I can't say that about any person. I trust the owners of Hans have sufficient money to see that he receives the care he needs...
...they omitted the conventional opening down beat of the baton, Sammy Kaye's men kept mum. The orchestra played exactly as fast or slow as the stick-waver indicated, however unintentionally. If a saxophone or trombone thought he saw a signal to come in, he did so regardless-with the result that periodically everything broke down...
...Homan in the Brooklyn Citizen, it was simple. He, too, saw a non-Republican on the convention floor dominating delegates' decisions: the menacing figure of Hitler. And last week, when the fireworks were over, it was plain that domestic and foreign issues had met on the convention floor, regardless of studied and cautious decisions on foreign policy in the platform...
...imperative also that there should be undertaken immediately an enormous expansion of our shipbuilding facilities. Regardless of whether the French Navy is surrendered to Hitler, he now has under his control the vast shipbuilding capacities of Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. . . . Our existing shipyards are not able to maintain for us 'a navy second to none.' "The National Guard and the organized reserves of the United States Army should be called into service immediately for a period of at least six months. . . . Compulsory, selective military service should be initiated immediately...
...many officers would obey orders issued under Axis duress and surrender their ships remained a major question. Bulk of the French Navy was believed to be in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the commandant of the naval base at Toulon announced that he and his men would fight on regardless of the armistices, that seemed a clue to the temper of French naval forces in the West. The French had been operating since September under direction of the British Admiralty. Presumably most of their ships were within Britain's power to hold and reman, if the personnel withdrew to save...