Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were accustomed. But we, like so many others, simply haven't the money . . . even if we had the inclination to send our little ones away from home to be educated by teachers of our own choosing. How fortunate for all concerned if our State Board of Education would accept holders of B. A. degrees with no other strings attached except the desire to instruct the young...
...that these companies must "reorganize" to have their bids considered. Beyond stating that mere change of name would not be sufficient, the Postmaster General did not specify what would constitute satisfactory reorganization. Sticking to his original contention that the annulled contracts were obtained by fraud & collusion, he agreed to accept briefs from carriers wishing to exculpate themselves. But he would not consent to hold open hearings, since in any case the companies, by losing their contracts, had legally disqualified themselves for five years from receiving new contracts under their old corporate setups...
...army. ¶ Next problem was Russia and the Kamchatka fishing leases (TIME, March 5). Russia had refused to renew the Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold they no longer represented a fair value. From Moscow last week went a new offer. Russia would accept the present Japanese bids provided Japan will reopen the entire matter before next year's auction. This Minister Hirota refused to do, claiming that 282 of the disputed fishing grounds were already definitely leased until 1936. It was not the money, said Koki Hirota, it was the principle...
...advised by four councils (political, ecclesiastical & educational, commercial, provincial). He, his Chancellor and Cabinet will initiate all legislation, allow or refuse plebiscites, change the Constitution at will; and he may dismiss his Chancellor and Cabinet at will. A Federal Chamber made up of members of the four councils will accept or reject his laws, without comment. The Head of State will control all universities and schools, newspapers, theatres and broadcasting stations. He will maintain the Catholic Church as the privileged and established church...
...decade, the little 67-year-old Italian is responsible. New Yorkers knew him before as an opera conductor but in 1915 he tiffed with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, raged out of the Metropolitan and returned to Milan to give all his time to the Scala. No one thought he would accept when Clarence Mackay asked him to conduct the Philharmonic in 1926. And when he cabled that he would come, great was the trepidation among the musicians. He was a musical god, they had heard, a despot, a devil. He used no score even at rehearsal but he could detect...