Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President really wanted and what Congress had no immediate intention of giving him was blanket authority to reorganize and consolidate the executive Government as he saw fit. Democrats answered the Hoover message last week by challenging the President to specify what cuts and consolidations he had in mind, to accept his constitutional responsibility of recommending changes to Congress...
...Received a letter from Federal Judge Wilkerson, nominee for the Circuit Court, explaining that he had never bound himself to accept the prosecutor's recommendation of a light sentence for Scarface Al Capone in return for a plea of guilty, but had permitted withdrawal of that plea because the defense insisted on full acceptance of the prosecutor's recommendation or nothing...
...cause his supporters to blush. . . . His speech was of a sort to make his friends sorry and the judicious grieve." ¶ To friends in Connecticut, Pennsylvania and California who wondered precisely where he stood in the party's pre-convention contest, Mr. Smith wrote: "I will accept the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. I certainly welcome the support of my friends and will be very happy to stand solidly with them." When the same supporters informed him that word was going around that he himself was not "available" because of his religion and that his candidacy was only...
...Meyer '32 will play the part of Napoleon in the Dramatic Club's forthcoming production of "Napoleon Intrudes," which will be presented at the Rogers Building during the first week of May. P. H. D. Rowan '34 was previously cast for the role, but was unable to accept...
Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur attended the W. & J. inauguration, urged that "the college and all that it stands for must volunteer to accept its measure of the responsibility of carrying our Nation forward." In his inaugural address Dr. Hutchison flayed the "false, materialistic doctrine" of going to college "because it pays," praised the oldtime college education which was "inviting only to those who did not set profit or wealth as their main objectives in life." Washington & Jefferson, chartered in 1787, is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies. Some of its original land is said...