Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being U. S. Army officers on active duty, the two lieutenants could not lend themselves altogether freely to the week-long demonstrations of the Hawaiian Islanders; they could not accept the $25,000 prize for first non-stop California-Hawaiian flight, which still stands as the munificence of James...
British Delegation's Concepts. 1) Britain to retain actual naval supremacy, while seeming to grant the U. S. equality with herself in a shrewdly-worded treaty; 2) The Coolidge Administration expected by the British to accept this treaty, so drawn as to make good political capital in the U. S. by giving the impression that a Coolidge victory had been won at Geneva; 3) The essence of this subterfuge to be twofold: a) That the U. S. and Britain should each be allowed to build 600,000 tons of cruisers (that is to say, a great many more than...
...Blackmer, along with one James E. O'Neil, president of the Prairie Oil Co., left for France. Mr. O'Neil has not been located since. Mr. Blackmer was found on May 11 by U. S. Consul at Marseilles Bernard F. Hale and then and later refused to accept subpoenas proffered...
...would do likewise, Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. last week ordered a reduction of at least 10% in wages of employes working at their Hollywood studio. Only men and women getting $50 a week or more were affected immediately. But those receiving pay in the higher brackets were obliged to accept cuts up to 25%. President Adolph Zukor knocked one-fourth off his own pay check, as did his chief officials. This made Paramount-Famous-Lasky's top payroll read for the year, according to reports from their Manhattan office: Adolph Zukor, president, $150,000; Jesse L. Lasky, vice president...
...Churchill's misstatements of fact are so many and so grave that no historian will in future be able to accept any of his assertions about the War without the most careful checking of references...