Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote the "Chapin for Lament" article to note, whether he refuses to accept them or not. MORGAN J. HAMMERS...
...Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The Democrats called in James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Massachusetts' Governor Joseph Buell Ely and Senator David Ignatius Walsh. Interested but helpless observers were 350 "paupers" of Lewiston, Me., disfranchised under an old law which denies the right to vote to those who accept State or municipal charity. These gave Senator Walsh a chance to say that the Republicans, "having brought misfortune to many people ... are now penalizing them for this mis fortune." The 350 Lewiston "paupers" saw their onetime mayor, Lawyer Louis J. Brann, elected governor over Burleigh Martin, president of the State Senate...
...civil war been averted, Your Highness?" Prince Svasti was asked. Darkly he replied, "The King will not accept any constitution based on group dictatorship...
Next day up spoke steely-eyed Lyang Pradin, 32-year-old leader of Siam's Group Dictatorship: "Despite reports that King Prajadhipok will refuse to accept the Constitution we feel certain that His Majesty will agree. What else can he do? ... During a ten year transition period we plan, by education and improvement of the position of the masses, to prepare the people for self-government. If England and France leave us alone we will build a new and beautiful country...
Further to persuade Mrs. Windrew to accept Philip as a son-in-law Mary Hilliard tells her that her daughter's present fiancé has been spending nights in Atlantic City with a Vanities girl. Unfortunately this turns out to be true, not only of the fiance but also of Mrs. Windrew's young son. By this time everybody is on the point of hysterics, including Mary Hilliard, who has suddenly decided she wants Philip for herself...