Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submarines in at tacking commercial vessels; and that these statements by Sir Edward Grey evidence his great disappointment that we have failed to be the instrument to save Britishcommerce from attack by Germany. . . ." By April, Allied rejection of the U. S. proposal was unanimous and had been docilely accepted by Secretary Lansing and President Wilson. Years later Sir Edward Grey, a Viscount, retired to feeding wild ducks on his Northumberland estate, was to write in his memoirs that the Allies, utterly dependent on the U. S. for supplies, would have had to accept any terms on which...
Interjected Chairman Bankes: "It is useless to be a briber unless the bribed will accept." (Laughter...
...Gomez and his opponent, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz. They chose Gomez. Menocal tore his beard indignantly. Dr. Dodds thereupon drew up the final electoral code (TIME, Dec. 16). New factor was that Cuba's pious, conservative women had the vote for the first time. Meanwhile, unwilling to accept the responsibility of either holding or postponing the election, provisional President Carlos Mendieta resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention...
...showed occasional wear & tear, but when she left the Metropolitan in 1914 her star was high. Manager Giulo Gatti-Casazza invited her to return on her own terms if she would only relearn all her Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...
Meantime Mr. Gibson gave Manufacturers a reputation for aggressive banking that few other institutions can duplicate. It jumped into the personal loan business. It stressed little commercial loans to little businessmen. It played ball with the Administration, was the first big Manhattan bank to accept RFC money. Its $230,000,000 of Governments consist almost entirely of long-term issues. Other banks fight for low-yield, short maturities every time an issue is offered, but for five years Manufacturers has preferred the higher returns to be had on Governments due in ten years or more. And in explaining his unorthodox...