Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accept his first nomination for the Presidency four years ago, Herbert Clark Hoover crossed the continent to his Palo Alto home, addressed 70,000 persons, mostly women, in the Stanford Stadium. It was a day bright with sunshine and political good fortune. Nominee Hoover expatiated statistically upon the country's prosperity, pointed to the vanishing poorhouse, promised, with God's help, to "banish poverty from this nation." His listeners went home with the feeling that only by his election could the country attain its full economic destiny. Mr. Hoover felt the same way. Last week...
...Mayor McCloskey, told him of the B. & O.'s offer, induced him to use his hard-boiled political oratory to get the B. E. F. to entrain. He could, he was assured, take all public credit for arranging the evacuation. Johnstownians feared that the Bonus marchers would never accept the B. & O.'s offer if they knew it had been inspired by Washington...
North Carolinians were shocked and startled at the dramatic turn of events in their State's rich family, famed for frivolity, now caught in tragedy. At first Winston-Salemites had been ready to accept the suicide theory. Young Reynolds was known to have talked of suicide often. Then gossipy newshawks began to arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more...
...stops of Wartime propaganda were pulled out. Posters went up on the hoardings, there were placards in Trafalgar Square. Orators spellbound theatre audiences in the intermissions. Newspapers printed honor rolls of firms who had converted all their War Loan Bonds, heaped honors on superpatriots who refused to accept their ?1 cash bonuses. And it worked...
...Then Colorado & Southern (a subsidiary of the Burlington) tried to give it away. No one wanted it. Finally Lawyer Victor A. Miller of Denver said he would take the line as a gift, and last week he applied to the I. C. C. for permission to accept it. Lawyer Miller knows what he is about. As receiver for Rio Grande Southern R. R. he has profitably substituted light gasoline trucks and busses for heavy rolling stock. Some trains are made up of an automobile fitted with flanged wheels, carrying ten passengers, and a diminutive freight...