Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Before going to Washington Mr. King tried in vain to persuade John W. Dafoe, editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, an uncompromising low-tariff Liberal, to accept the post of Canadian Minister to Washington. His second choice was reported to be Sir Herbert Marler, for six years Canada's Minister to Tokyo...
...Crown Princess will hereafter use not more than two of their motor cars. An English governess who has cared for any number of Italian royal infants and who had settled down in the Palace for life was hinting in Rome last week that she is now "willing to accept a situation with some American millionaire." Mobbed early last week, Rome's Eden Hotel decided to become Aloisi Hotel. But light-hearted young Fascists were reminded by the Dictator that his cardinal policy is discipline. For failure to preserve adequate discipline Rome Chief of Police Giuseppe Cocchia was abruptly ordered...
...reservation to college resent any suggestion of new Government paternalism, hotly demand the right to become normal, unsegregated U. S. citizens. But Indians on any reservation may take or leave the Act's provisions as the majority chooses. Up to last week 176 reservations had voted to accept, only 76 to reject. First to draw up and approve a constitution were the Flatheads...
Just how effective Presidential suasion may be was illustrated by a little anecdote that Franklin Roosevelt told his press conference. On Sept. 20 George F. Johnson, chairman of Endicott Johnson Corp. (shoes), lunching at Hyde Park, sounded out the President on whether his company should accept a large order for shoes from the Italian Government. Were they ladies' slippers? the President asked ironically. No, Mr. Johnson replied, they might be used for army boots. Thereupon the President advised Shoeman Johnson not to accept the order...
...typical of the ambitious, unscrupulous men of his age. He belonged in the ranks of those international adventurers and quick-change artists who floated around Europe in the days before the French Revolution, men of talent too restless to be content with their humble stations, too enlightened to accept the prevailing beliefs of their class, too adroit not to squeeze through the crevices that appeared when the social structure began splitting apart. But Beaumarchais' life had one distinction which was lacking in the careers of such blackmailers as D'Eon, Cagliostro or Morande. Like them he employed forgery...