Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year's General Strike in San Francisco. The defense won a play when the Court agreed to have Convict Billings brought from Folsom Prison to San Francisco, so that he will face his one-time co-agitator when he gives his testimony. The pair have split because Billings will accept parole. Mooney will...
...felt obliged to have Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson observe in his weekly propaganda letter: "It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto part of a bill. He has got to accept or reject the whole thing and they [potato sponsors] reasoned logically that he would rather take the potato than destroy the whole measure asked...
...Bolivia's General Enrique Peņaranda. These two extraordinary militarists, who opened the armistice with a champagne luncheon at which they toasted each other on the battlefield (TIME, July 29), got down to business last week with such vehemence that their aides predicted: "If the Governments concerned do not accept the peace they make, General Peņaranda and General Estigarribia will force it upon them...
...preliminary 20% by one bank, 55% by the other, stood to receive about $55,000 when the final distribution is made. Their loss would be about $39,000. Last week Superintendent Gerling, so popular by this time that the school board recently tried in vain to make him accept a $6,000 raise in salary,-* said his pledge of $25,000 was still good. By week's end he had received $2,000 in pledges...
...Money," is the adventurous tale of two blonde process-servers who are confident that any man can be made--to accept a summons. The difficulties they encounter in slapping subpoenas on such men as Butch Gonzales, Phil Logan, and Man Mountain Dean are as nothing compared to the complexities which arise when C. Richard Courtney of Central Park, West, is attacked. Hugh Herbert adds another figure to his imposing list of characterizations in the person of one Homer Bronson, shyster lawyer with considerable experience in breaches of promise. The courtroom scene is hardly calculated to bring into one's mind...