Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation has done me a lot of good. I am in first class physical condition. And, while the work of the Executive increases every year, it is not beyond the capacity of one man to discharge. There is no way that it can be much "relieved. The people accept no substitute for the President. In my own experience I have found it most helpful to find out what the Constitution and law require the Executive to do and confine myself to doing that...
...diplomatic mist at Geneva, Switzerland, last week came a scheme to admit the U. S. to the World Court. A conference of the Court Adherent Powers decided to accept the five Senate reservations in toto, with a counter reservation on No. IV that "the signatory states acting together with at least a two-thirds majority should possess a corresponding right to withdraw their acceptance of the special conditions attached by the United States"; and with the suggestion than an "understanding" on No. V could be reached after the U. S. was in the Court. It is expected that...
...Official Spokesman's megaphone; said very carefully that he had no comment to make on the reports from Geneva, but that the situation looked gloomy. He might have added that it is embarrassing. When the President receives the official invitations from the World Court members, he cannot accept them in their altered form without consulting the Senate, neither can he pigeonhole them after politely thanking Europe, All of which means that there will probably be another World Court squall in the Senate within the. next two years. Already the Senatorial "diehards" arid irreconcilables, who unsuccessfully fumed against the Court...
...strange case of Midshipman Earl B. Zirkle of Kansas, who would not accept an ensign's commission on graduation from the U. S. Naval Academy last June came last week to an impasse...
...justification of elections, referenda, and majority rule is not the wisdom of the multitude, much less its omniscience, but the pressing necessity of devising some crude makeshift whereby decisions can be reached which the people will accept...