Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taft made him Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia. He filled the post with ability until 1916. In 1920 he became Republican National Committeeman from Georgia, a post he held until his death. President Harding again nominated him for Recorder of Deeds, but the Senate refused to accept...
General Business. 1) Mosul: the Turks, ever more than a match for European statesmen, muddled the whole matter (TIME, Sept. 14 and ante) by refusing to accept the League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation...
...Cadwallader and Sir Arthur took lively parts in this denouncing, the former inducing her hearers to accept her plan for erecting a monument at Rochester, N. Y., to the Fox sisters* as "the founders of spiritualism." When it was Sir Arthur's turn to speak-malicious spirits had interruped him at the opening meeting - an over-flow crowd of some 1,500 excitable French people milled about the doors of the auditorium, pushing and shoving and grunting to get in and hear. Lady Doyle took the platform, expostulated, when over the stage came a bursting-party of rowdies...
...There certainly was no express understanding [ i. e. arrived at between the President and Mr. Haney] concerning the continuance in office or the removal of President Palmer. . . I myself had definitely advised you that I could not accept a reappointment if any conditions whatever attached to that reappointment. . . I did not intend to lead you, directly or indirectly, Mr. President, to understand that I would be a party to continuing Mr. Palmer as President of the Fleet Corporation...
...letter to Attorney General Sargent. He said in almost so many words that the Department of Justice had not done its duty in presenting the case,, had failed to bring before the court lega points which he had suggested in a memorandum. He added "this office must decline to accept the memorandum opinion of the Court of Claims in this case...