Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Atlanta, Georgia, he made a speech. Which is reported to have had a political flavor, as one might well have suspected. It is said that he eulogized his own little nest in New York and lamented that the other Democrats of the country had been so reluctant to accept an invitation to share it with him and his fellows. Reference was made, in the course of his speech, to a certain member of the Tammany species at present ensconced in a rather ornate rookery in Albany, but who is reputed to be not averse to a migration towards the District...
...which this is to be accomplished their predictions were vague. Many believe that the Nationalist Reichstag deputies will vote half for and half against the pacts, as they did in the case of the Dawes Plan, thus avoiding responsibility but allowing the measure to pass. The Socialists, unwilling to accept the responsibility which this move would thrust upon them, are threatening to vote 50-50 likewise, and have already issued a manifesto demanding that the Reichstag be dissolved and the electorate directly appealed to. For the nonce the factions have taken to vehement radio broadcasting of their views...
...University of Wisconsin has taken to writing newspaper articles in the manner of Dr. Frank Crane and Publicist Bruce Barton, last week outlined to a newspaper reporter the policy he intends to pursue in his new incumbency. There is an issue at Wisconsin: the regents' resolution to accept no more endowment funds from incorporated educational foundations (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). But Dr. Frank has only just gone on the scene. He is not one to commit himself. With a shrewd editor's talent for making nothing sound like something, said he: "If the facts warrant...
...movement of democratization of the industries has a big research department and publicity department", he continued. "In 20 years, public opinion may well be ready to accept Labor principles...
...baseball at Summer hotels where they were employed, while camp counselors might coach their charges without violating the eligibility rules. More advanced ground is taken theoretically in the matter of amateur standing in this report. It doubts whether a student earning his way through college should be forbidden to accept "a job in the Summer, just because it involves participation in a sport." The argument is made that there is little or no difference in the case of the man who "gets a job in a Summer hotel and plays on the hotel ball nine...