Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President prepared last week to clasp hands with Premier Pierre Laval (see p. 18), a gentleman whose strong displeasure he incurred four months ago by asking that France accept at once the Hoover Moratorium (TIME, June...
...wage reductions (TIME, Oct. 5). All last fortnight the movement continued, employers explaining that there must be less pay or no work at all. With the nation's banks and the world's economy at a crisis (see p. 13 and p. 15), Labor was expected to accept its share of the general misfortune in a peaceful spirit. For the most part it did so accept, but most of the workers thus far affected by the scaling down were non-union workers. The country observed closely as the 51st annual A. F. of L. convention sat down...
...common, arrested seven agitators. But the United Workers were allowed to convene at will. At Boonton, Dover and Paterson (N. J.), Hampden (Mass.) and Philadelphia, members of the well-organized American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, A. F. of L. affiliate, struck, but their leaders agreed to accept 35% to 40% reductions in wages in return for a guarantee of the 1929 scale...
...deny that to fall in with the proposal would have been a clever way of making a generous gesture and carrying off applause as gracefully as possible in a bad situation. A method of assisting unemployment relief has been suggested to the President, and he has declined to accept the means and its concomitant sacrifice of principle...
...Harding and Leslie Howard, whose slow progress toward cinematic celebrity is a reflection on his employers. The story is a revised version of the Cinderella legend concerning a girl whose parents have overlooked her charms. To attract the attention of a young barrister, the girl is forced to accept employment as nursery governess to his son. Disguised in spectacles, wig, puff-sleeves and a cockney accent, she interrupts the barrister (Leslie Howard) to bring him cups of tea and bouillon. It takes him a long time to penetrate her hoax and when he does so he is nearly deprived...