Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported the Tribunal: "We have seen Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Cabinet], Sir Warren Fisher [head of the Civil Service] and Sir Maurice Gwyer [Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury] in the witness box. We unhesitatingly accept their evidence as regards themselves, their subordinates, and those engaged in the civil service generally, including the printers who are employed on this and other work of confidential nature...
Born 55 years ago in the Italian province of Catanzaro, white-maned Giuseppe Donato has long enlivened Philadelphia with artistic disputation. In 1915 he sued Chocolate Tycoon Milton Snavely Hershey for refusing to accept a marble group called Dance of Eternal Spring which he had ordered for a fountain on his front lawn. A jury awarded Sculptor Donato $25,000. Mr. Hershey persuaded the City of Harrisburg to take the Donato fountain. Cried he: "I don't want this damned thing anywhere in Hershey...
...whom it went the paper did not say, but many British fingers pointed privately to fuzzy-chinned Haj Amin el Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and president of the Arab Supreme Council. A sincere Arab patriot, fuzzy Haj Amin has no particular love for Italy but would probably accept help from anyone who would help him keep the Jews from his native land. The Grand Mufti was admittedly responsible for the bloody riots...
...Jones has a particularly warm feeling for Manufacturers Trust because President Harvey Dow Gibson was the first big Manhattan banker to accept RFC money when Mr. Jones was staging his great campaign to build up the capital of the nation's banks...
...doing anything about the matter. Other work not done : The convention shelved a Social Action report whose economic implications scared many a conservative Baptist. Also put over for revision was a 15-point "Code of Professional Ethics" for Baptist ministers which contained the following observations: "It is unethical to accept the pastorate of a church and then by word or act seek to deflect that church from its cooperating affiliations. . . . It is considered unethical for one minister to make professional calls on members of other churches. . . . One must not malign another minister or besmirch his reputation. If all the truth...