Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carriers as much as a blanket 15% rate increase, there have been no cuts except among salaried workers. Rail officials have been even stronger than was Steelman Farrell last spring in making clear that wage cuts would be the very last resort. Few people think that the Brotherhoods would accept a reduction without strikes and disorder. Their attitude towards the current state of affairs was clearly shown last week by an editorial in Labor, their magazine...
...Indians. It would not be too great a price to pay for Indian liberty!" Three Freedom Tests, Aside from answering the Commoners' questions, Mr. Gandhi made a two-hour-long speech in conversational tones, told the House roundly that he, speaking for the Indian National Congress, will not accept those "safeguards" and "reservations" with which British statesmen are trying to hedge the new Indian Constitution now being drafted in London. "The tests by which Indians will know whether they are free," postulated St. Gandhi, "are whether they have been granted control of Indian defense, the Indian Civil Service...
...Colonel the President offered China's brand new Aviation Medal, never before conferred. Colonel Lindbergh agreed to accept his medal publicly from President Chiang at 10 a.m. next...
...President: It is with pleasure and gratification that I have to report that the Cambridge school committee voted yesterday to accept the generous and public spirited offer of the university to give the city the use of the north wing of the new biological laboratory for its Rindge students during the current school year...
...will have potent rivals for the presidency. Among those spoken of are: Boston Lawyer Charles Pelham Curtis Jr., 36, clubman, sportsman, member of a distinguished Harvard family (but he stutters a bit, a disadvantage in a Harvard president); Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (he probably would not accept); Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of Harvard Law School, personable son-in-law of the late Woodrow Wilson; Cancer Fighter Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted president of the University of Michigan; and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian (but these two are considered too "advanced"). Meanwhile, tight-lipped President...