Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent action of postal officials in two Ohio cities refusing to accept for delivery packages of food for workers inside the Republic Steel plants, is but another evidence of how far the American government has departed from its true function of serving as an umpire to settle difference between conflicting sections of the community...
...Secretary James Roosevelt, who sped South last week to join his father at Fort Worth, and Postmaster General Farley, who boarded the Presidential special at Indianapolis, reportedly were both dispatched by Senate leaders to tell the President that his Plan seemed headed for defeat, to beg him to accept a compromise. Polls continued to show the Senate so evenly split that forecasters were suggesting that Vice President Garner might have to break a tie. And many a loyal Administrationist feared that though the President might still succeed in ramming his Plan through intact, in doing so he would...
...last of the learned professions to accept women practitioners. Traditionally it was felt that law and women had little in common. It was said: "Law is logical, women are intuitive"; "law is abstract; women deal best with the concrete"; "law requires long, sustained application; women excel in short spurts." It was in 1864 that an Iowa woman first sought admission to the bar. By 1910 there were only 558 women lawyers in the U. S. Now there are more than 4,500, of whom 1,000 are in New York City...
Admission to the bar is tantamount to election to State bar associations and even in such legal citadels as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago, city bar groups accept women members. But at the florid marble building of the Bar Association of the City of New York at No. 42 West 44th Street, women lawyers have never been welcome. At one Bar Association reception for newly admitted lawyers, women were turned away. Although Manhattan women lawyers had met informally for nearly 15 years prior, it was this incident which served to solidify their organization into the New York Women...
...latest press report tells us that Harvard will accept the Nazi invitation of Goettingen, which Yale and Columbia and the great universities of England have all refused...