Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation was able to accept naval limitation at either the relatively high total tonnage level demanded by Great Britain or the relatively low level insisted upon by Japan; but since the British and Japanese were so far apart the U. S. delegation's ability to agree with either was of small consequence...
...that the Persian is apt to be tolerably pious, quite up to Occidental average in sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been expected to accept bribes, embezzle, cheat. The peasantry have usually chosen for their principal crop that hardy weed, the opium plant, a species of vegetation which requires absolutely no cultivation and fairly luxuriates upon the ideal soil of Persia. Not surprising, then, was the discovery of the Millspaugh Mission that in 1922 there...
...Delegation's Concepts: 1) That the U. S. would accept nothing less than parity, at not more than 400,000 cruiser tons (200,000 less than the British asked) ; 2) That the British proposal to limit cruisers to 7,500 tons could not be tolerated, chiefly because it would make more than 40 fast British steamers potential cruisers, and also because of U. S. lack of naval bases; 3) That the British had stated their position in such bald terms that the Coolidge Administration would not find such a treaty as the British proposed valuable political capital, but rather...
...Teachers have been the special concern of Olive M. Jones of Manhattan, onetime (1924) N. E. A. president. They should be pensioned, housed, cared for. Miss Jones asked and received authority to accept money given in support of her survey and old-teachers'-home-building activity...
...doing evil to their cinema competitors and were in effect malefactors. Their trade practices had been monopolistic because: 1) By owning or controlling 368 theatres on June 30, 1926 (more than 550 now) the corporation had substantially stifled competition. 2) By renting films only in blocks, exhibitors had to accept pictures of poor drawing power. 3) By buying or threatening to buy picture houses, the corporation bullied exhibitors to come to its terms. Within 60 days these tactics all must cease, ordered the Federal Trade Commission...