Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Industry has become so highly mechanized that it has been utterly and absolutely impossible to provide work at the old standard work week and work day. . . . We are prepared to support the plan either through legislative enactment or exercise of our economic force in compelling employes to accept it-by calling strikes and thus withholding the service of the employes until industry establishes the shorter week. I shrink to think it necessary to take such steps but industrial leaders refuse to take action...
...reflect too long. Chéron," chaffed a Cabinet colleague. "In the end you will accept!" Deliberately, ten minutes later, Papa Chéron accepted. French cartoonists rejoiced. Within a week M. Chéron was a national figure, a sort of Norman Coolidge, invincibly bourgeois. As Finance Minister he outlasted Premier Poincaré, carried on under Premier Briand, then under Premier Tardieu. When the latter fell (TIME, Feb. 24, 1930) Papa Chéron was found to have left in Jean Frenchman's long, woolen sock a treasury surplus of 19 billion francs...
...outcome of this situation. Megan Davis tries to make a Christian out of General Yen when he is planning to murder a traitorous ex-mistress. He sneers at her attempts, assures her that Christianity is a mumbo-jumbo. To test Megan Davis's sincerity, he offers to accept her as a hostage for the loyalty of his ex-mistress. Miss Davis's Christian faith in the ex-mistress proves to be unjustified. So does her mistrust of General Yen. Having lost his province and his army in giving Miss Davis a chance to prove the efficacy of Christian...
...continued, "and do not believe that she has been guilty of anything except indiscretion, and while we believe that she was attempting to put into practice what we are preaching, that one should help his fellowman when he is 'down,' it seems best under the circumstances to accept her resignation...
Died. Ernst von Borsig, 63, famed German locomotive & machinery tycoon, senior head of once potent A. Borsig. Ltd., biggest member of the Borsig group (second biggest German one-family business*), bankrupted last year and forced to accept government aid; of heart disease; on his country estate Gross Syphen Behnitz, Brandenburg...