Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finally His Majesty announced himself willing to accept supervision of the entire Empire of Ethiopia under League of Nations' auspices. But Haile Selassie "would not grant Italy a preponderance of strength or influence...
...boasting ancestors who barely missed the Mayflower. As early as 1914 his father, Charles Howard Warren, socialite treasurer of the billion-dollar Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, gave Yale a scholarship for some boy like his late son. In 1924 he obtained Yale's promise to accept more such scholarships when he died. Surprised was Yale last week to learn that Father Warren, who died in November, had left it not two or three more scholarships but an estate estimated at $1,000,000, big enough to grant nearly 100 scholarships each year...
...Scene 2, only a year after her coronation, "Vicky" has already begun to assert her Teutonic stubbornness. Her colloquy with Lord Melbourne, in which she gently lets that Prime Minister understand that she will accept his matrimonial advice provided that it coincides with her own wishes, is strongly reminiscent of Actress Hayes' pert and pretty Bab period...
...United Kingdom and French Governments recommend that His Majesty the Emperor accept and will use their influence to secure the approval by the League of Nations of the formation in Southern Ethiopia of a zone of economic expansion and settlement reserved to Italy...
...reject The Deal. It might then be eloquently said by Orator Laval that since Ethiopia had flouted and rejected "a peaceful solution conceived within the framework of the League," that affronted entity must turn the blade of Sanctions against Ethiopia and away from Italy in case Il Duce should accept the "good offices" of Britain and France within that framework. Into this trap last week the wily Ethiopian did not walk. Informally to correspondents His Majesty excoriated The Deal but he did not officially reject it. Neither did Dictator Mussolini officially accept it or even permit himself to be informally...