Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President will accept up to $100,000,000 in silver as payment on War debts at a rate of not more than 50? an ounce. This sop to boost the silver market holds good for only one year. The silver payments will be used for coinage to back an issue of silver certificates...
...stalked quietly into New York to knock the breath out of imperious, blind Joseph Pulitzer. Few knew he was there until. to add to the cream of his imported San Francisco staff, he began buying up Pulitzer's best brains-including Arthur Brisbane-and in addition made Pulitzer accept 1? instead of 2? for his paper. Richard Harding Davis and a dozen other star writers were also at call. The sensationalism with which Pulitzer had startled Publishers Dana and Bennett and shocked Godkin, now paled beside the hyperbolic extravagances of the Journal, which in three months rocketed from...
...body of legend surrounds Washington's false teeth. The Stuart Athenaeum portrait, which the Washington family refused to accept, pictorially reports with great accuracy the distortion which the clumsy plates caused in the First President's face. Dr. Greenwood counseled filling with candle wax holes eroded in the teeth by mouth acids. Washington is said to have stopped at a blacksmith shop for repairs on one occasion. It is also said that the springs were likely to stick, setting the President's mouth agape if he opened it too wide...
...railroads in the land. In his campaign speech at Salt Lake City last year Franklin Roosevelt put the carriers on notice that they could not look for an unlimited flow of credit from his Administration. He was ready to help them through the slump but they, in turn, must accept more drastic Federal supervision...
...Economics at Princeton University in 1919-20, and associate professor of Banking at Northwestern University the following year. A member of the Department of Economics at Harvard since 1921, he served as professor of Economics from 1929 to the present time. It had been rumored that Professor Williams would accept a position with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York next year...