Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LASKI has steadfastly refused to accept the label of "Marxist," but it is doubtful if anyone, with the permissible exception of John Strachey, has yet written a more brilliant defense of the general Communist position. Though on matters of dialectic and detail, he differs noticeably from the orthodoxies of the Third International, his basic convictions are unmistakably Red. For this reason it is not too likely that "Democracy in Crisis" will replace the King James Version on the sitting-room table of the great American Boor. But those who agree with the conclusions the author has reached will feel...
...assume simply that the compensation offered the tutor, both financially and in prestige, does not offset the satisfaction of lecturing, and the more mysterious pleasures of research. The University is being forced to pay a heavy price for the unwillingness of the older members of the Faculty to accept tutees. The lack of interest and experience manifested by so many of the present tutors is generating a corresponding slackness in the average student, and the first efforts of the new administration ought to be aimed at correcting...
Because the House was itching not only to accept the Senate's 25% limitation but to cut the cuts back to 15%. President Roosevelt called a Sunday night conference at the White House on his return from a cruise down the Potomac on the Sequoia. To it he summoned Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Byrns, half a dozen important House Democrats. For three hours he gave them a heart-to-heart. Director of the Budget Douglas had advised him to veto the whole appropriation bill, take the economy issue to the country by radio if Congress insisted upon a pension...
Nazification received a brief check last week when the elders of the Landes-kirchen, representing 29 Protestant church groups, meeting in Berlin, stubbornly refused to accept a hand-picked Nazi candidate as First Evangelical Bishop of the Reich. Picked by the Hitlerites to unify and co-ordinate Germany's Protestant sects was a Rev. Dr. Ludwig Müller. army chaplain and leader of a Nazi organization known as the "German Christians." Despite arguments, pleas and threats, the sober, elderly delegates to the Landes-kirchen stubbornly refused to vote for him, chose as their leader patriarchal Rev. Dr. Friedrich...
...Landeskirchen have not understood the call of the hour nor heard the voice of God summoning us to valorous deeds. From National Socialism alone arose the demand for a new form of the church. We German Christians say NO to this election! We refuse to accept...