Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pearson the President expressed the hope that he would accept in place of the $8,000 job of Governor the $8,000 job of Assistant Director of PWA Housing in charge of Public Welfare, "a post of honor...
...Earle V. Pierce preaches just around the corner from me. He's the sensitive spirit who in your July 15 issue deplores your "stench of debasing animalism" and wistfully looks forward to the day when the postman will no longer force him to accept TIME. Seeing his letter today (Sunday), and remembering his pretty gift for snappy sermon titles, I was moved to note tonight's offering on his billboard. Well, he will particularize "A Kiss That Didn't Count." That should catch many a hesitant eye tempted to rove among the bathing beauties of nearby Lake...
...Eduard Benes, perpetual squatter in the post of Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia and nemesis of the Habsburgs. In his official newsorgan Prager Presse, Dr. Benes fired a double-barreled editorial warning as the spokesman of the Little Entente (Czechosloakia, Yugoslavia & Rumania). First he declared that the Little Entente "will accept the last consequences [i. e. war] to oppose not only restoration but the mere return of Otto and Zita on Austrian soil." Second, he threatened: "An attempt at restoration would throw the Little Entente States into an alliance with Germany against the Habsburgs." Finally he warned: "Restoration of our former...
...Emperor Power of Trinity in Addis Ababa the Negro Pittsburgh Courier cabled MANY AMERICAN NEGROES DESIRE TO VOLUNTEER SERVICE FOR YOUR ARMY WHAT IS ETHIOPIA'S ATTITUDE. Replied His Majesty : FOLLOWING YOUR TELEGRAM LET US KNOW YOUR CONDITIONS AND WE WILL ACCEPT YOU WITH PLEASURE. This stumped the Courier but in scores of darktowns persuasive Negroes set themselves up as recruiting agents, offered tempting terms in the name of Power of Trinity, asked from 25? to 50? as an enlistment fee. Meanwhile, on the vague frontier between many a U. S. Harlem and Little Italy, excited black curbstone orators...
...Gasser was uneasy about a job that may curtail the study of nerve physiology on which his scientific reputation stands and that entails the full management of the Rockefeller Institute and the supervision of its 651 employes, including two Nobel Prizewinners and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Before he would accept Dr. Flexner's offer, he went to St. Louis to ask advice of old friends at Washington University where he worked for 15 years. They soothed his qualms, advised him to accept. He returned to Dr. Flexner's office, accepted, went scooting off to Europe to get perspective...