Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the White House was all abustle with excited preparations for President Hoover's "I-accept-the-nomination" speech. The President got back from the printer the first proofs of his address keynoting his campaign, took them to the Rapidan camp for weekend revision. Right up to the last minute only his closest political friends knew what position, if any, he would take on the tortuous Republican Prohibition plank...
...accept $26,000 in bonds as "profits of an ordinary, lawful business transaction" from a brokerage firm interested in taxicabs, but he did not sponsor the kind of municipal legislation they sought...
...today can refuse to accept responsibility and I feel as if I had been drafted," declared Mr. Pomerene as he hurried from Cleveland to Washington to see the President. When he arrived at the White House, the man who will help administer $3,800,000,000 worth of Federal credit, told correspondents he had only 98¢ in his pocket. "And I've been asked for that at least a dozen times," he added...
...thin, capable hands of ascetic former Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. His personal party, the Catholic Centrists, had made good their campaign slogan "Back to Büning!" (see cut) to the extent of nine seats over 1930. The Socialists, his former opponents, were willing to accept him as a leader to stem the tide of Nationalism. Like David Lloyd George in Britain, Heinrich Brüining is probably the shrewdest politician in his country. Newspapers were quick to point out the similarity between his position and that of Britain's tricky Welshman from 1929, when Labor came...
...whole change is the need for economy. The university administration's overhead comes to $125,000 a year. President Spencer has refused to say how much the consolidation would reduce this. Said Matthew Hill, best-known Washington alumnus: "Oppressive taxes and the public's willingness to accept any economy gives Hartley the opportunity he has wanted for eight years, to reduce the University to a liberal arts college. He would eliminate it entirely if he could get away with...