Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resigned her new job as National Youth Administration director for three New York counties, declared : "It is too bad my work in the district has not been allowed to stand or fall on its merits. The leading social workers of the county . . . urged my appointment and induced me to accept the position . . . I know they agree that remarkable progress has been made. . . . Mrs. Meyer stepped out over her head. . . . This is my first and last government job. I shall go back to my business of selling life insurance to women...
...Misguided friends of Ethiopia," cried Lord Mansfield, "brought about rejection of the Hoare-Laval proposals, wherefore Ethiopia will now have to accept worse terms...
...commanders, bevies of War Ministry bureau chiefs and slews of Japanese officers of all the higher ranks.* Thus the Army continued its "expiation" for the Army assassinations of Japanese liberal statesmen (TIME, March 16). But for every one of the 500 resignations - far too many for His Majesty to accept - the Army expected to receive and managed to secure last week more & more abject yielding to its Radical-Militarism...
...professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left the offer open...
...working out a program for painlessly absorbing the picker into the South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...