Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Navy Department, acting on its own reports from Pearl Harbor, refused to accept Governor Judd's contention that conditions had been exaggerated in the Press. The U. S. fleet maneuvers will be held, as scheduled, next month in Hawaiian waters but neither officers nor men will be given any shore leave in Honolulu or on the island of Oahu because "the situation" there is "too tense...
...towering Minister Maginot was always "The Sergeant." At the beginning of the War he gave up his seat in the Chamber and enlisted as a private. He lost a leg at Verdun, and realizing that after the War he would value the votes of thousands of poilus, refused to accept any promotion beyond a sergeant's stripes. Always immaculately dressed, formidable champion of the French militarists, Sergeant Maginot carried his sabre-rattling beyond politics. Despite his wooden leg he was an excellent fencer. France buried him last week with all the funeral honors she had bestowed on Marshal Foch...
...seemed the best way out of a difficult situation. Premier Laval offered the Ministry of War to his former superior, Andre Tardieu. M. Tardieu was in no hurry to accept it. In France no one can remain Minister of War who does not talk and act like a Nationalist. As Premier only a year ago Andre Tardieu was building an international reputation as a moderate, a conciliator. He still hopes for a chance to replace extraordinarily lucky Pierre Laval. Laval fought earnestly to save his Government by forcing Andre Tardieu, now Minister of Agriculture, into...
...appointed Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois, where he continued until 1924. From 1911 through 1924 he was also curator of the Museum of Classical Art and Archaeology. He resigned the position of Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois to accept the post of Professor of Latin at Amherst, and in 1927, on the resignation of the late George Daniel Olds, Professor Pease became President of Amherst College...
...request for federal loans to city governments opens up an even larger problem. The self-sufficiency of local governments is one of the most valuable of American traditions. To accept extraordinary assistance from the federal government, without the most pressing need, would be to confess that municipal democratic government is incompetent. The charge made by Lord Bryce to that effect years ago, and often repeated, would be proved by the cities themselves...