Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...different reasons than Witness Baruch. The President wants a hand entirely free to wage economic war on the Dictators. In this desire he has the backing of such politically opposed authorities as the Baltimore Sun and New York Herald Tribune. But for political convenience, the President is willing to accept simple extension of the cash & carry clause, so long as he is not straitjacketed by any clauses making his actions mandatory...
Loyola, elected General of the Society after thrice declining, perfected such methods of discipline as encouraging Jesuits (with the highest motives) to inform on one another; to travel always in pairs; to drink beer with beer drinkers. He forbade Jesuits to accept ecclesiastical honors-a rule broken only when the Pope commands one to accept a Cardinal's hat as an honor to the Society itself, or appoints one to a difficult bishopric or archbishopric. Ignatius dismissed a father who dared praise him publicly and forbade those living with him to look him straight in the face...
...might be well, in the second place, to find a means of forcing each Master to accept the given criteria. The Central Committee should require strict observance of the cross-section--intellectual, social, racial, and financial. Although this is at the present time fairly closely approximated, there are a few striking deviations, and one House in particular has violated the spirit of the crosssection. Much can be said for the development of House individuality and character, but this can be fostered on the basis of a cross-section as well as on that of a clique...
Under this technique a union representative on occasion may try to "organize" an employer before his workers are organized. If the employer is "sold" before his workers accept the same proposition, the resultant agreement may or may not meet the preferences of the employes concerned, therefore may violate the Wagner Act. Many a Federationist, raised in this concept of bargaining, resents any hint that it should be suspect...
Later Mr. Thweatt declared: "At the close of the talk, Capone's face seemed to radiate, and when I asked those prisoners to stand who felt the need and will to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour, he was the first to rise." That this "conversion" had taken place, no one doubted. Said Prison Warden E. J. Lloyd: "Sure, the ministers do that all the time. And there are always ten or fifteen men who raise their hands or rise. I don't know whether they really mean it or not." What Warden Lloyd...