Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voted (268-10-42) to accept the Senate's 10% cut in the Interior Department appropriation bill...
...editor who did get into the Senate last week (the Senate was sure to accept him) was Major John S. ("Jack") Cohen, of the Atlanta Journal, appointed by Governor Russell of Georgia to succeed the late Senator William Julius Harris. Senator-designate Cohen is also Georgia's Democratic National committeeman. He began newspaper work on the Augusta Chronicle, served the New York World, joined the Journal itself in 1890. Outstanding candidates for the Cohen seat in the November election: Governor Russell and Congressman Charles Robert Crisp, acting chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee...
...Today's election leaves the situation obscure," anxiously observed the semi-official Paris daily Le Matin. "Will the most powerful party in Prussia accept being excluded from the Government by means of a Parliamentary maneuver...
...nomination. Though he got only 36% of the G. O. P. primary vote, he managed to nose out four other candidates. As a Wet, he handily defeated a weasler, one Omer N. Custer, whom repeal-vetoing Governor Louis Emmerson had selected as his successor. Nominee Small declaimed: "I accept the responsibility of leading the people in their battle against the forces of wealth, greed and privilege back to prosperity...
...charged last week that he had fleeced Japan out of grants totaling $3,000,000 gold when he rejoined the Chinese cause. That General Ma's telegram was genuine neither the Chinese Government (which published it as damaging to Japan) nor the Japanese Government doubted last week. Both publicly accepted it as authentic. But the Soviet Government after a four-day interval called the telegram false, the work of Japanese agents. This charge Moscow seemed to be making to spike rumors that what General Ma had actually done was to join forces with Russia, accept fat Soviet bribes...