Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President's hands. President Hoover explained that he did not purpose to accept these resignations-except where a minor official might be. deemed inessential or might attempt to stand in Efficiency's way. Aside from post masters, a President has about 3,000 appointive offices he may fill. President Hoover said he expected to make only "20 or 30'" changes...
...twentieth century mind seems unwilling to accept characters and incidents hung in mid-air by an author's fancy. Proust, Joyce. "Orlando." "Death Comes to the Archbishop," and may I say my own work all verge into the province of memories, diaries, historical narrative, and autobiography...
...Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval air unit at Yale and Mr. Ingalls...
...telling who is to impart or withhold "the consent of the United States." Is it the Senate's consent that is meant, or the President's or what? Reservation V is thus not only arrogant but obscure, and therefore the League and Court States refused (1926) to accept the adherence of the U.S. on such terms ?much as they want to welcome the U.S. into the World Court, which is the judicial antechamber of the political League of Nations...
...this country for his mercurial newspaper idyll, A Hind Let Loose; for his satire on Englishmen at war, Right Off the Map and for the War-novel Rough Justice. In spite of his admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant...