Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Impossible! At no price could I accept that condition. I know that the King is very sick, and I know also the love and affection that he really has for me. I know the sentiment that caused him suddenly to change his formal decision not to see me again. I have friends who always have defended me before the King, and I sincerely thank them, as I thank the King, my father...
Last week Thomas Walter Swan, Dean of the Yale Law School since 1916, announced that he would accept President Coolidge's appointment as Judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Second District (Connecticut, New York, Vermont). He succeeds the late Henry Wade Rogers, who was Dean of Law at Yale (1903-16) until his own appointment as judge. The Second Circuit Court happens also to be the part-time seat of another one- time distinguished Dean of Law, Supreme Court Associate Justice Stone (Columbia University, 1910-24), assigned as Supreme Court Justice to that territory...
...earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept it without compliance with its spirit will in all probability be able to find loopholes by whch they will be able to maintain their pledged word without serious detriment to their enjoyment. The only cases where a pledge to "obey law" will accomplish its purpose will be among those...
Woodrow Wilson was born on Dec. 28, 1856. Seventy years later, many of his admirers gathered at luncheons and dinners through out the land to honor his name. In Manhattan Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and some 500 distinguished guests assembled to hear Elihu Root accept a check for $25,000 and a bronze medal from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (TIME, Dec. 20) "in recognition of his services to humanity...
...None the less the organizing committee of the Liberal Party found itself so nearly bankrupt last week, that it voted 19 to 14 to accept funds from the ?1,000,000 (84-860,000) private fund controlled by Mr. Lloyd George. The Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg, commented: "Lloyd George is using money which he obtained by selling titles while in power, to buy the Liberal Party, so that he can sell its support to the Laborites...