Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME accept a correction on a trivial statement made in the biography of Harry Bridges (TIME, July 19)-"his wife . . . fell out of a window while hanging out the wash." She was not hanging out the wash, but bringing...
Step by step events broke down the unity of the Majority. In the spring, if the President had been willing to accept two instead of six new Justices for the Supreme Court, the greater part of his Majority would have rallied round him. Instead, their overtures rejected, the moderates became irreconcilables. When finally the President yielded, gave Leader Robinson a free hand to work out any compromise possible, the chance of doing so had grown slender. When Congress convened, Leader Robinson predicted that it would have successfully adjourned by June...
Adolf Hitler exploded indignantly when Carl von Ossietzky, famed German pacifist, was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize while still a prisoner of the Third Reich (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). The decision of the awarders was reviled as "an insult to the German people." Nazis were forbidden thereafter to accept a Nobel Prize, were told that in future the Government would award similar prizes for Germans only...
...days of last week. At week's end, however, radio conferences were still going strong & stormily. What progress the A. F. of M. was making nobody would say. But few were naïve enough to suppose that such powerful chains as National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia would accept Boss Weber's demands without a fight...
...last year's discovery by the Los Angeles Ministerial Association that its "Spiritual Psychic Science Church" was selling ordination certificates for cash, was willing to accept $10 even from "Rev. Drake Goo-Goo," Funnyman Joe Penner's duck (TIME, April 20, 1936): Revocation last week of the "Church's" charter, after court hearings...