Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mopping his forehead and unbuttoning his vest Governor Murray then proceeded to give the State convention his platform which he would carry to Chicago and try to get the national Democracy to accept. It was, he said, "a new song-the song of the people," which would have to be backed by the people's dimes rather than large campaign donations...
...absolve him of blame for an act to which only perjured witnesses can testify. He and his sympathizers have, however, so stressed the political aspects of the situation that no governor dares grant this pardon. If Mooney really considers his freedom more important than a Socialist martyrdom he must accept a parole rather than continue his political campaign...
Next day in St. Louis the Associated Building Interests, contractors' organization, asked the Building Trades Council, to which 18,000 union men belong, to accept a 337%, reduction for the next 18 months. "The contractor employing union men," lamented the A. B. I., "is now virtually out of business, for he cannot compete with the outsider...
...living conditions they find in their natural hosts. Thus the tubercle bacillus which attacks cows needs a different culture environment from the tubercle bacillus which attacks human beings, and both need different cultures from the bacillus which causes diphtheria. This philosophy has been too precious for most bacteriologists to accept. For that reason, but more so for his stubborn secrecy and his able publicity, they have maligned Bacteriologist Spahlinger. He for his part has been micrometrically deliberate at his labors, and by no means frank...
...Resigns presidency of Amherst to accept professorship at Harvard...