Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less-a privilege now limited to 2% gold bonds. Senator Glass estimated his amendment, offered as a substitute for the House's Goldsborough Bill to inflate commodity prices by deflating the dollar, would bring out $995,000,000 in new currency. Twice the House refused to accept this rider to the Home Loan bill. Thrice the Senate refused to accept the bill without the rider. After hours of night haggling, the House finally, with only four votes to spare, gave in to the Senate and both bill and rider went to the White House...
Soviet Russia alone came forward last week to support President Hoover's proposal (Italy and certain minor nations having already done so). Cried big, bearish Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, "My government will accept no resolution terminating this Conference which does not embody the principle of one-third reduction of arms...
...measure proposed and insisted upon, even to the extent of defeat of relief legislation, by the Speaker, threatens disaster to our people. ... I cannot accept the proposal for I do not propose to further increase unemployment by jeopardizing the whole credit of the Government and laying our people open to every kind of injustice and loss...
...creditor powers accept, in lieu of Reparations, bonds to be issued by Germany with a face value of four billion marks...
...Visitation Nun. They were the surviving sisters of St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus: Céline, 61; Léonie, 65; Marie, 78; Carmelites at Lisieux. Cloistered all, they did not attend the dedication, just as in 1925 they preferred not to accept the Pope's special invitation to the canonization of their sister...