Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holdings of the U. S. Supreme Court are the supreme laws of the land. Whether we like the decisions or not, it is the patriotic duty of every citizen and the sworn duty of every public officer to accept and uphold them in letter and in spirit. . . . This decision means that we must put the names of Negroes in jury boxes in every county...
...company. Meantime Architect Howard T. Fisher of Chicago, son of President Taft's Secretary of the Interior, was putting together General Houses, Inc. And three months ago Architect William Van Alen, who designed Manhattan's Chrysler Building, had become sufficiently interested in prefabricated houses to accept a directorship in a third venture, National Houses...
...Senate Commerce Committee reported out a bill which was much less than Dr. Tugwell and Mrs. Roosevelt had originally planned, but much more than the makers and merchandisers of Ovaltine, Listerine, Ex-Lax, Sal Hepatica, Vicks, Fleischmann's Yeast, Aspirin, Pepsodent, Danderine, Vitalis, et al. cared to accept voluntarily. And President Roosevelt prodded Congress on to action with a special message...
...head. As soon as he could, he began to charge top-price fees. 'T exacted from my clients in the way of fees all that the traffic would bear, or almost the limit." Foreseeing a period .of depression after Cleveland's election in 1892, he decided to accept the offer of Diamond Tycoon "Barney"' Barnato (Barnett Isaacs) to be his consulting engineer in South Africa. Six months later Hammond was working for Cecil Rhodes. For seven years he was one of Rhodes's right-hand men and closest friends. Says Hammond: "He was the greatest personality...
...accept your resignation with very real regret. For nearly two years you have discharged your important duties with distinction and success. A survey of your record and that of your office, taking into account the business transacted, the multiplicity of matters intrusted to your care, and the results achieved, will challenge comparison with any like period of time in the history of your department...