Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prediction. Said 93-year-old Chauncey Mitchell Depew last week: ". . . With a ringing speech by some leading Republican, I anticipate there will be a stampede, followed by a unanimous call to Mr. Coolidge to accept a renomination. I don't believe any human being could resist such a draft.... If I remember correctly I am the only man twice invited by acclamation to address a Republican National Convention, and without a time limit. I'd like to do it once more...
...working upon a solution of the question." The great difficulty involved is 1) to get the Chamber and Senate to approve the Mellon-Berenger accord without a safeguarding clause (entitling France to stop payments to her creditors should Germany cease her reparation payments) or 2) to get Washington to accept the proposed safeguard clause...
...Then I am sorry, gentlemen," Mr. Bingham said he replied, "but I shall not be able to accept your invitation...
...Freshmen will form one league made up of teams representing each dormitory. Independent groups of upperclassmen will form another, and the third will be enlisted from the graduate schools. The fourth league will be made up of those clubs and fraternities in the College which accept Samborski's invitation to play...
...days later the U. S. marines fired at a band of irregulars, said to be attached to the forces of a General Salgado, who refused to accept the peace terms laid down by the U. S. last spring (TIME, May 16). One Francisco Barrios, "bandit chief," fell dead...