Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Accept my sincere thanks for the splendid writeup of "Pumpernickle Bill" in a recent issue of TIME. It was well done, and had many favorable comments...
...rdenas, Cedillo felt secure. His agrarian army was largely responsible for booting out party-boss and former President Plutarco Elias Calles in 1934, replacing him with liberal-minded Cardenas. Time & again, the blustering General Cedillo, riled at Leftist indictments, handed in his resignation, but Cardenas refused to accept it. Recently they sat down to breakfast in the President's home, Los Pinos, in Mexico City...
...Agriculture peevishly complained that the undergraduates, many of them students he had appointed, should remain loyal. He wired Cárdenas at Yucatan: "Order War Department to present for my disposition 200 soldiers to be sent to Chapingo Agricultural School to stop riots. Should you fail to comply . . . please accept this as my resignation. . . ." The threat failed. Cárdenas replied, "Your resignation has been accepted." General Cedillo hurried his bulk off to the safety of his own bailiwick...
Argument at Zurich was between those who believed that any scheme to divide the Holy Land was morally wrong, and those led by the world's best-known Zionist, chin-bearded Dr. Chaim Weizmann, who were willing to accept the British scheme as a basis for bargaining, feeling that half a cake was better than none. Near week's end the matter was put to a vote among the committee on political resolutions. Two resolutions were presented, one favoring the British scheme-with reservations, the other unalterably opposed. On a roll call delegates voted "Aleph...
...frontier he roamed, following Indian trails or pushing rude boats, always planting new seed and returning periodically to tend the young trees. Soon the whole frontier knew him, gladly gave him shelter. With long hair flying and beard full of burrs, he would lope from the forest at evening, accept supper from a solitary homesteader, read aloud from the Bible or a volume of Swedenborg he usually carried, sleep on the hearth and be off at dawn, often leaving a few pages of his Bible behind him. Growing to believe that clothes were not for comfort but only to cover...