Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom Pat Harrison is a grand old guy. Being as loyal as Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison has stood by the President, even unto the Supreme Court Bill, but not with vociferous enthusiasm. Thus both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill, and to ask the President to accept Pat Harrison was not to ask him to take an enemy as his lieutenant. Therefore Pat Harrison's friends had burned with indignation when the President's "message to A'ben" (see p. n) emphasized Alben Barkley's place as "acting leader." Before they left Washington...
...handed His Majesty the resignation of the whole Cabinet. This was a gesture upon which King and Premier had agreed, as emphasizing the resentment felt by His Majesty's Government against those forces which had compelled the Minister of Justice to resign. Leopold III promptly refused to accept the Cabinet's resignation and the Premier thus strongly backed by his King, announced: "I associate myself fully with the views of the Minister of Justice...
...received favors from him seemed to forget those favors, and there were even some who demanded the repayment of loans they claimed to have made him. One, a wealthy notable, was particularly merciless. As we had no money, we sent him some of our valuable treasures, but he would accept nothing but cash. This and other pathetic incidents bred in my susceptible mind a hatred of injustice. I was a gloomy youth throughout my student days, with an inclination to read extremist literature from Western Europe...
...soft speech at the hearing Mayor Wilson permitted the City Council to withdraw the ordinance, promised to veto it if it were ever submitted to him again. This apparently unqualified defeat was not so complete as it appeared. The Council had arranged a compromise whereby the insurance companies will accept a 2% tax on all premiums paid by policyholders living in Philadelphia. Penn Mutual will thereby pay about $100,000 annually. To the mayor this week was to go the honor of announcing this agreement...
...boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted of operating a gun aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred to that branch. When he met Corra, the beautiful wife of an anemic New York newspaper man, he was tempted for the first time to accept a commission. Instead he decided merely to shoot straighter thereafter. But one day Corra announced bitterly that her husband had tuberculosis and she could not leave him. Rex cut his leave short, took tfiie first boat leaving, an old freighter which was practically made to order for Submarines. When...