Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than he was at becoming a Works Progress Director. At Washington, Newark and Manhattan he growled: "The President said he wanted me to take the job. I did not want to take it. ... I was called in today to the log cabin on Pennsylvania Avenue and told I should accept the job. I'm a soldier and I do what I'm told to do. ... It feels like hell...
...follow Franklin Roosevelt in one respect: he has been a strict budget-balancer and the rent money will help even if it never reaches home. Lest, however, any U. S. citizen profit by his Government's keeping its word, Panama immediately demanded that its U. S. creditors accept 4% instead of the 6-½% interest promised them...
...Warsaw last week Premier Walery Slawek and the rest of that tight little clique known as the "Pilsudski Colonels" were still running Poland while newly omnipotent President Moscicki continued to accept the Army's advice as he always did during the lifetime of the Marshal. Fusty, scraggle-bearded Brother Jan Pilsudski has been installed as a sort of mascot Minister of War. Dictator Pilsudski's successor in the Inspector Generalship, key Army post which the old Marshal always held, now is masterful, magnetic General Edward Rydz-Smigly, like the late Dictator a hero of Poland...
...became so dear to his heart that he served it for seven years (1914-21) without pay. Competition between songs is absurd, according to ASCAP and its shrewdly sentimental lawyer. "A person desiring to hear 'Mother Machree,' " says Mr. Burkan, "is not satisfied with and will not accept a rendition of 'A Kiss in the Dark...
With the field swept clear of rivals, Du Bois laboriously reconstructs his picture of the turbulent years from documents they neglected, facts they did not stress. Most modern readers can accept without argument his thesis that Negro slavery constituted one of the gravest problems the U. S. faced after the Revolutionary War, will be startled to learn that early U. S. leaders admitted they could visualize no solution, shocked at Du Bois's account of the commercial breeding of slaves that followed the Constitutional end of the slave trade (1808). He holds that the South "turned the most beautiful...