Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usually accept my copy of TIME as being very close to the truth. It is surprising, therefore, to read in the Manitoba Free Press that the man you mention as a masseur in the late King George V's funeral is Constantin Cotalan, a member of the highest Rumanian military order of "Mihai Viteazul...
...friend of the New Deal. Last week Publisher Gannett, sunning himself in Miami, was glad to run as second choice for Senator Borah in Ohio in order to save the Supreme Court from Franklin Roosevelt. Said he: "It would mean a great sacrifice for me to accept any public office, and I prefer to devote myself to my newspapers. . . . However, such a grave crisis confronts the nation that all who believe in our precious institutions . . . must be ready to make many sacrifices. ... If the Republicans will nominate Senator Borah, he will be elected and the America we love will...
...crucial instant the U. S. Government gave the exhibition some needful publicity when New York customs officials refused to accept 19 strange objects as nondutiable sculpture. They based their ruling on a judicial decision which states that sculpture as an art must depict "natural objects in their true proportion." Things were at an impasse since the avowed purpose of all abstract sculpture was to depict nothing at all but to stand on its own merits as pure design. President Conger Goodyear of the Modern Museum promptly protested...
Almost axiomatic is the belief that jobbing is doomed as an economic function. The wholesaler, runs the argument, will be inevitably squeezed to death between chain-store competition and direct-to-retailer selling by manufacturers. One jobber who has refused to accept this fate is Butler Brothers, one of the biggest U. S. wholesale houses.* Last week Butler's President Frank Simpson Cunningham told his stockholders that in 1935 their company sold $73,000,000 worth of hardware, cutlery, jewelry, furniture, notions, dresses, towels, etc., and retained $1,285,000 as net profit. That was a little better than...
Howard Mumford Jones, most prominent member of the English department at the University of Michigan, has been tendered and will accept an offer to be a full professor at Harvard next year, according to strong though unconfirmed rumors yesterday...