Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidates, and, those of us in the Wilson group, sought the Governor's permission to bring about a meeting with visions of posed photographs and a worthwhile national story. Governor Wilson was timid about the proprieties of it, but allowed himself to be persuaded to accept an invitation from the President. If memory serves me correctly Billy Swan (yachting stories) then of the Associated Press made the contact with the President's party. Result: A cordial invitation from the genial Taft to the man who within a month was to unseat...
...future political form is still undecided, but Spaniards, especially Catalonians, are intensely individualistic and will never accept the bureaucratic control of the masses the Bolsheviki have developed. We respect property and business except in cases where these are used against us by our enemies. Unless compelled by the hostility of sabotage, we prefer control to expropriation...
...spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will be to arrange a not particularly sporting deal, whereby, in return for such favors as permission to have his boat towed across the Atlantic instead of sailing it, Challenger Sopwith will accept a later date...
...made 16 rear-platform appearances while crossing Iowa and Illinois. At Council Bluffs, he lost his Masonic ring while trying to shake a hundred upstretched hands at once. It was found later in the cinders of the road bed. At Cedar Rapids he announced again that he would accept President Roosevelt's invitation to confer on Drought next week, declared: "No individual and no organization should meet this problem from the point of view of politics. I am not concerned about where the credit goes in the solution of the problem of our drought just so we meet...
...After dinner with a dozen old friends, he motored to the familiar grounds and in the opensided amphitheatre delivered his second political speech, interjecting a new issue in the campaign. Excerpts: ''In view of the great contribution Chautauqua has made to American Life, I was glad to accept your invitation to speak...