Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
...institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people who would rather amend the Constitution than accept the President's Plan-if they could only agree on an amendment, and Pundit Moley offered no solution of their problem. Neither did Princeton's President Dodds, whose best thought was to turn the whole problem over to an independent commission. Hence after three days of opposition testimony...
Beyond that Phelps Smith said little, leaving the rest to his two executors, the Adirondack National Bank & Trust Co. and Attorney John M. Cantwell, of Malone, both well trained to accept the Smith word as law. Last week no Adirondack native doubted that Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences would soon be a proud reality...
...evidence of good sportsmanship is that a man who has had a chance to present a fair case to a fair tribunal must be a good sport and accept the outcome. Courts only decide things that are submitted to them, and only things that are in dispute come before them...
...would be possible for them to accept reduced pensions in return for which after their death their widows would be given annuities...