Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eirma. In Evanston, Ill. city employes received their pay in the form of "Eirma" money, named from the initials of the Evanston Independent Retail Merchants' Association. Merchants agreed to accept the paper at face value. Every time a scrip dollar changes hands, the receiver sticks on it a 2? stamp, bought from the Merchants' Association. When the back of an Eirma bill has been covered with 50 stamps, it can be redeemed in U. S. coin. Merchants who have bought stamps will be credited with the amount in tax anticipation warrants. Milwaukee and Chicago pondered following Evanston...
...final determination of the program be held in abeyance until after March 4. ... It would be improper for me and inadvisable for you, for me to take part in naming representatives [who] could be responsible only and properly to you as President. ... It would be unwise for me to accept an apparent joint responsibility with you when, as a matter of constitutional fact, I would be wholly lacking in any attendant authority...
President-elect Roosevelt: There remains before March only the possibility of exploratory work and preliminary surveys. ... I am glad to avoid the loss of precious time through delay in starting these preliminaries. . . . However for me to accept any joint responsibility in the work of exploration might well be construed by other nations as a commitment -moral, even though not legal-as to policies and courses of action. . . . The designation of a man or men of such eminence as your telegram suggests would not imply mere fact-findings; it would suggest the presumption that such representatives were empowered to exchange views...
...Snowden, who was not only a Governor of the B. B. C. but is vice-chairman of Covent Garden Opera Syndicate as well, is of course the wife of bitter little Viscount Snowden who resigned from the National Cabinet and broke with his old friend Ramsay MacDonald rather than accept the Ottawa tariff agreements. Appointments to the B. B. C. board are made by King George on recommendations of the Prime Minister. Appointed to Lady Snowden's place was Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, onetime Laborite M. P., who has published an extremely flattering biography of Ramsay MacDonald...
...special Torgsin stores which sell only for valuta (foreign money), if he has any valuta-a difficult thing for a Russian to obtain. Last week the bars went down a little. To increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan...