Word: accept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about to take place, but on the Pacific Coast it was an object of interest. Reason for the free ride was that last summer Congress passed and President Roosevelt signed a bill for the Treasury to pay the transportation back to his native land of any Filipino who would accept. A backer of this law was Pacific Coast Labor, which saw in the creation of the Philippine Commonwealth a good excuse for inviting Filipino workers to go home rather than stay in the U. S. selling their services for 10? an hour in competition with white...
...trial this week in a U. S. District Court in Manhattan. Two days before, the company announced its offer to settle with both Mohawk and Morro Castle plaintiffs out of court. The trial was then adjourned, and the lawyers representing the claimants indicated that virtually all their clients would accept...
...such radio commentators. Equally irate was Mercer County Grand Jury Foreman Allyne M. Freeman at Carter's implication that politics, not justice, motivated his jurymen. Cried Foreman Freeman: "A cowardly, libelous and malicious lie! I consider his comments an insult to the Grand Jury. I shall never accept a penny nor an ounce of political patronage as remuneration for any statement I ever make about this unfortunate case, and the statements I do make will be based upon facts and will be truthful. Boake Carter. I assume, is being paid for his yellow journal sheet quotations...
...whole plot revolves around the question of Jack's ancestry, which is rather questionable, as Jack was found comfortably ensconced in a black leather bag in the cloak-room of the Victoria station. Lady Blacknell refuses to accept that as sufficient ancestry, Jack sets out to do something about it, and "thereby hangs a tale...
...encouraging sign of a chastened Council is the abandonment of many glittering and outworn pretensions as shown in the preamble of the new document. Realizing that direct jurisdiction over students was a doctrine as wishful as it was impractical, the framers of the new constitution have settled back to accept a less spectacular but more fitting role. The chief function of the council will be, "to bring before the governing bodies of the College expression of undergraduate opinion in an effort to make College policies better adapted to the needs of the student body...