Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this debate, we expect to have a radio hook-up, provided the Landonites will accept. Of course, they can't bring in any ringers," he added. A rally just before the election is also planned...
...worked with the same uncompromising power that had made him a motor tycoon, but their reconciliation was interrupted by Kurt (Gregory Gave). This time she asked for a divorce. Kurt, she felt sure, would extirpate the middle age she dreaded so, and which Sam seemed so ready to accept. A footsore, lonely Sam was being comforted in Italy by the platonic favors of a friendly expatriate named Edith Cortright (Mary Astor) when Kurt's mother told Fran why the old wives of young husbands are invariably miserable. From the automatic habit of more than 20 years Sam resumed...
...secretary of Idaho's other U. S. Senator, James Pinckney Pope, told how his employer had lately been passing through a small Idaho mining town, had seen two storekeeper brothers fistfighting, stopped them with a "burst of eloquence." Their argument was over whether to accept 50,000 shares of new mining stock from a gold prospector in payment of his $1,000 grocery bill. Last week Senator Pope learned that the brothers had taken the slock, had sold...
Returning to his column in the New York Herald Tribune after a two-month vacation, Pundit Lippmann, long one of the President's most sympathetic critics, flatly announced: "I am going to vote for Governor Landon." His reason: There are no great issues between the two Parties. Both accept what the Supreme Court has left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such...
Pointedly left behind in Buckingham Palace by King Edward when he went on vacation was the official Private Secretary whom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin successfully pressed His Majesty to accept. Major Alexander Hardinge. The London weekly Great Britain and the East recently identified Major Hardinge as the official who never tires of advocating greater dignity in His Majesty's affairs and is tortured by informal reporting of Edward VIII in either British or U. S. publications. With the King on holiday is his actual private secretary, Sir Godfrey Thomas, who for 15 years was his official Private Secretary when...