Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation from the President is a command, although it is usually worked to permit declinations in favor of previous engagements.* Governor Alfred E. ("Smiling") Smith was unable to accept President Coolidge's first luncheon date, so their respective secretaries exchanged cordial telegrams and arranged a second...
Forty thousand garment workers entered upon the third week of thumb-twiddling. They demand a 40-hour week, a guarantee of 36 weeks' work every year, limitation of the number of jobbers and the registration of contracts with the union. Neither the jobbers nor the union will accept the report of Governor Smith's commission. The impasse is complete...
...blanket resignation from each Emergency Fleet Corporation President before he takes office. To date Lasker, Farley, Palmer, Crowley have "resigned." Brigadier General A. C. Dalton was handed the shaky sceptre last week. He has already "handed in his resignation" to the Shipping Board, although the latter graciously will not "accept" during General Dalton's good behavior in its eyes. The Shipping Board, naturally smug, last week tilted its nose still higher, neglected to seek President Coolidge's approval before making the new appointment...
...their period, he had developed in his small town (Wheaton, Ill.) Methodist church circles, had kept them through his political activities there, had used them to build up a law practice of $75,000 yearly. Only if he were permitted to apply them to big business would he accept the presidency of the Federal Steel Co., which he organized for J. P. Morgan Sr. in 1898. "You can select the directors, name the executive committee, choose your officers and fix your salary," Morgan told...
Baffled by this superbly plausible and quite noncommittal interview, the news gatherers welcomed an apparently unequivocal statement by President Masaryk that he would under no circumstances accept the resignation of Dr. Benes...