Word: accept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Chairman McReynolds took with him also a prime trading point to force the Senate peacemen to accept the President's compromise. Ardently did he and a majority of the House desire to lay down an absolute embargo on loans & credits to warring nations. Except for the Nye-Clark bloc, the Senate was flatly opposed to such action. Therefore, threatened Chairman McReynolds, let the Senate peacemen accept the President's compromise or he would write a loans & credits embargo into their resolution, thus killing off neutrality legislation at this session...
After pious rejoicing at the Prophetic Bible Institute and devout singing of Our God, Our Help in Ages Past, Messiah Aberhart announced that he was ready to accept the call to be Alberta's Premier, declared: "It has been a revolution not of bullets but of ballots...
...Representative O'Connor's investigation of lobbying for and against the Public Utility Bill was the aftermath of a House revolt at Administration pressure on Representatives to compel them to accept the "death sentence" clause for holding companies. Senator Black's investigation of the same thing was sponsored by friends of the "death sentence" who sought so to discredit the utilities in the headlines that the House would have to reverse its position on the "death sentence...
Conferences. The three churches would keep their separate annual conferences, would join together in a new general conference. Incumbent Northern and Southern bishops would retain their posts. The Methodist Protestants would accept two bishoprics, thus signifying that they no longer object to the Episcopacy as they did in 1828. Set up would be six jurisdictional conferences which would elect their own bishops. Purely geographical, five of the conferences would be called the Northeast, Southeast, North Central, South Central, Western. The sixth would innocently be called Central, would embrace 300,000 Negro Methodists, regardless of geography...
...arrears cannot be paid without ruining the company. American Hide & Leather was last week proposing to its stockholders to solve the dilemma by replacing the 7% preferred with new 6% preferred, reducing the dividend requirement from $700,000 a year to $300,000. Preferred stockholders were asked to accept four shares of new common in lieu of their rights to the unpaid dividends. Finally, the company proposed to put an end to the extravagant hopes of its founders by writing off $7,169,000 of trade marks, goodwill and other intangible assets...