Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General thought it the better part of wisdom to let Edward F. McGrady, Madam Secretary Perkins' able assistant, try to persuade the Rank & Filers to accept the steelmasters' offer of a labor board. Chief Tighe was summoned back from Cleveland to attend the conference. In the presence of his fiery subchiefs, even that conservative old leader could find nothing good to say of the plan...
Adolf Hitler had consented, for no ambassador can be sent who is persona non grata. When the Roosevelt choice was on the fire it was said that the Nazi Chancellor would never accept a Jewish ambassador. By last week he had changed his tune, perhaps because of German fear of further reduction in Soviet Russia's already drastically curtailed purchases of German machinery...
...Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father, he met a crisis. to accept its resignation. And a young King can scarcely take that high-handed line. While the Queen groaned and her mother murmured Swedish prayers, the Premier decided to risk a vote of confidence on his program of deflation, reduced taxes and smaller dole payments. Vexed, a few Liberals split off from...
...last week Yale had never in living memory disclosed the names of its honorary degree recipients before commencement, which this year comes on June 20. But last week it had news too good to keep. President Roosevelt had consented to come up. accept an LL. D. He will be the ninth actual or future U. S. President to receive Yale's kudos. George Washington got his degree while in office, by letter. William McKinley. also in office, accepted by telegram. William Howard Taft was a Federal judge when he was honored in 1893. President Theodore Roosevelt and Professor Woodrow...
...cinema and vaudeville offers made to his kidnap-recovered daughter, June Robles, Fernando Robles said: "I plan to accept one of the offers and take $1,500 of the proceeds and set it aside as a reward for the capture of the kidnappers...