Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hadn't expected any reward, she said, "not one single thing." "It would be a lot easier to stay in Washington and I'd have a lot more fun," she told a columnist. "But I think this post is an advancement for women and I ought to accept...
...union had frequently abused arbitration agreements on the mainland. A fact-finding board appointed by Governor Ingram M. Stainback tried to find a compromise formula by this week, but the fact-finders had no power to enforce their recommendations and little reason to believe that either side would accept them...
...even with my husband." But, she added magnanimously, "I won't hold it against the American people, whom I love and admire very much." In fact, she might even be back some day "if ever there's a government which will receive antiFascists as willingly as they accept Fascists...
...from the Ogdensburg, N.Y. Chamber of Commerce. "In fact, it would be quite impossible for her to do so" (the letter did not explain why). But anyhow, the princess sent her thanks to Ogdensburg, and wanted the Chamber of Commerce to know "how very much she would like to accept...
...Imagine? The University of California faculty wanted no dictating. The Academic Senate of the university's northern section (composed of 700 professors and instructors) refused to accept the Regents' new loyalty oath unless the senate's own representatives were allowed to help revise it. Meanwhile, the University of Connecticut flatly refused to send in any book lists to the Un-American Activities Committee. Heads of other colleges protested. Said President Francis P. Gaines of Washington and Lee University, "Can you imagine a group of erudite Congressmen telling us what books our professors may use [in] literature...