Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corset fame?a colleague of mine on the Oberlin College Trustee Board. His father was a trustee before him and in 1882 he offered the College $75,000 for a music hall. A member of the faculty with a conscience of abnormal development questioned whether it was ethical to accept such a donation from a man whose money "had been squeezed out of the girls." However the College took the gift and built what is now known on the campus as Warner Hall...
...week closed, garment executives met in Manhattan, resolved that they "could not accept or acquiesce in the President's demands," called them "unjustifiable, unwarranted, burdensome and inequable." From the violence of their reaction, observers guessed that the president would not back up the textile workers in their designs for shorter hours...
Asked why he had come down from Herbert Hoover's 33 1/2%, Secretary Swanson snapped, "Well, we will see if they accept 20% before we go any further...
...been taken to prevent such an occurrence. In a letter to the proprietors of the plane we stated: In the first place we desire to make it very clear that we do not wish the plane to be overhead at any time throughout the King's program. But we accept full responsibility for the miscarriage of our plans, resulting in an incident which detracted from a ceremony so impressive and so important. We desire to tender to the Lord Mayor and the civic authorities, and to every one concerned, our sincere apology for an occurrence which was entirely unpremeditated...
Ominously the Premier concluded: "Either the Cabinet as at present constituted must be maintained or else I must offer its collective resignation and accept the consequences, namely, the formation of another Cabinet with another Premier than myself...