Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Refused to accept the Senate's 10% cut in the State, Justice, Commerce & Labor appropriation bill; sent the bill to conference...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli had not decided last week whether to accept a $7,000-a-week offer for 20 weeks from Paramount-Publix, the cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed...
Biggest Danish industry is the curing, slicing, packing, exporting of bacon. Last week Denmark's big bacon men closed all the nation's bacon factories, tried to force their help to accept a 20% wage cut. Copenhagen papers accused "Fascist elements" among the bacon men of a daring, underhanded scheme to beat down wages by so disrupting Danish finances that the Government would have to unpeg the Danish krone, pegged at present to the British crown. Promptly Danish laborites adopted a peculiar slogan, shouted outside the locked bacon factories^ "Rather join a live Chamberlain* than a dead Kreuger...
...State Department to keep President Jose Maria Moncada in power a few more years by "supervising" Nicaraguan elections. On publication of his picture Carlos Morales pointed a furious finger at Luis Debayle. Protesting his innocence, Dr. Debayle offered his resignation to President Moncada who refused to accept it, told him to carry on for Nicaragua...
...successor the late Bishop Alfred Harding are in the chapels, in handsome sarcophagi. Last person to be buried there was Counselor Melville Elijah Stone of the Associated Press. The delicate matter of arranging interments is in the hands of the Cathedral Executive Committee, who are empowered to accept no more than one person a year. For his interest in arranging such matters, Bishop Freeman has been called, with the sometimes startling jocularity of high churchmen, "The Body-Snatcher...