Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret that in this affair there are only imagary dates of payment, which will lead up to a loan with solid security in the shape of our territorial possessions, as was the case for Turkey. Such a thing, Mr. President, I am bound to tell you we shall never accept...
...Genesis story of Creation, and in historical Christianity as believed in and taught by the Church for the past two thousand years. It is evident from your jocose treatment of time honored standards of belief that you do not want the patronage of those who are not willing to accept the half-baked modern interpretation of life which you appear to espouse, and therefore I assume you will have the business honor to refund the price which I paid for your magazine; if you are deficient in that honor you will not, of course, return it- in any case...
...President awaited, assumedly with no surplus of satisfaction, the arrival of Secretary of State Kellogg from Washington for a quiet talk about the Administration's foreign policy. The Secretary has not succeeded: 1) In persuading Great Britain and Japan to accept tentative invitations to a new Naval Disarmament Conference under U. S. auspices. Last week word came from Geneva that Britain had definitely refused. 2) In materially assisting Chile and Peru to compose their differences over Tacna-Arica, a dispute in which the U. S. assumed the thankless role of arbiter during the Harding Administration. 3) In moving...
...time for granting a subsidy had irredeemably passed. ¶ Perused with interest garbled reports of a general conference of Miners' Federation delegates in London at which A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, bitter-ender Communist secretary of the Miners' Federation, reputedly admitted that the miners may have to accept a lower wage than that for which they are fighting but enjoined them to a last ditch fight to retain the seven-hour day. The Seven Hours Act was temporarily abrogated by the Eight Hours Act (TIME, July 12 et seq.) which is the keystone of Premier Baldwin's anti...
...vote of 76 to 17 the conditions* on which the U. S. will adhere to the World Court.† (TIME, Feb. 8, THE CONGRESS). For almost half a year 42 Court-adherent nations have been pondering requests (despatched to each individually by the U. S.) that they accept these reservations...