Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered 14 freight cars from the Belt Line to move perishable freight. Strikers announced that they would not let the cars be moved. That brought the power and prestige of California into the conflict. Governor Merriam, who had kept neutral in spite of his Southern California nonUnionism, spoke: "I accept the defy offered by those in charge of the strike. ... I will call upon the National Guard, the citizens of San Francisco and every citizen of the Commonwealth to support the Government...
Last week major production companies, who still believe that the demand for less sexy pictures comes from a noisy minority, were prepared to accept the fact that cleaner pictures are, at least temporarily, necessary. Columbia's Vice President Jack Cohn voiced the opinion of the industry to his salesmen in Atlantic City: "This violent burst of condemnation is directed against something greater than the motion picture. . . . The motion picture reflects the thing against which the Crusaders inveigh-the tendencies of the times...
...Last week Armour & Co. stockholders voted to accept the reorganization plan sponsored by President Thomas George Lee and Boston's crusty septuagenarian Banker Frederick Henry Prince, Armour's largest stockholder (TIME, June 11). Chief item is a $55,000,000 write-down in assets to improve earnings, cut depreciation charges $2,150,000. Stated capital is reduced from $157,231,000 to $20m723.000 by the substitution of two classes of stock for three...
Beyond dispute La Prensa is the leading newspaper in South America, is read throughout the continent. Sternly independent, it truckles to no political party, even refuses to accept political advertising on the ground that if any politician is really as good as he claims, he is legitimate news and will be reported accordingly...
...sold some 300,000 copies and firmly established itself as a modern masterpiece. For years Hollywood has eyed it as a mighty challenge to the cinema's capacity to transfer literature to the screen without losing its precious essence. But there were real difficulties: Would the public accept a clubfooted hero? What was to be done with a love story involving a young man's revulsion from his baser instincts? How could a hateful shrew of a girl be portrayed by any actress known to Holly wood? As a practical answer to these questions. Of Human Bondage...