Word: acceptable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little change. If the Senate were to pass the bill as Mr. McNary wished, the House might consent to a joint conference to arrange the differences or it might, as seemed probable, reject the Haugen bill just as it was rejected before. If by any chance the House should accept the Haugen bill, it was reasonably certain that the President would veto it. The most the proponents of the bill could really hope for was a greatly modified compromise-a sort of patchwork bill as a sop for the farmers...
...site now chiefly mud. Their efforts have been directed toward negotiating a treaty whereby British-mandated Irak would be confirmed in the possession of that major portion of Mosul granted to her by a ruling of the League Council (TIME, Dec. 28, LEAGUE). The Turks have consistently refused to accept the Council's adjudication...
...strode in like the ghost of Banquo, dabbed his eyes with an ever damper handkerchief, handed to League Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond a cablegram. . . . The cable conveyed in 5,000 words the resignation of Brazil from her nonpermanent Council seat. The Council, not to be stampeded, refused to accept the resignation, held that the Assembly of the League is alone empowered...
...prince attends to his job, which is the welfare of Sweden. He thought he hadn't time to accept Mr. Ochs' invitation to see the Times presses, running nearby. This writer suggested, 'You ought to see how fast our American presses can eat up paper made in Sweden.' That interested him, and he went...
...judges who overruled British Judge Kershaw last week forcing the acquittal of six out of seven natives (two Zaghlulists) charged with the murder of Sir Lee Stack, Governor General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Judge Kershaw resigned last week. The British note ominously "declined to accept the verdict, reserved the right to take steps to insure the future safety of foreigners in Egypt...