Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Local No. 134 of the Electrician's Union, Chicago, voted not to accept a raise of 25? a day due them under a five-year contract with the telephone company...
When the mayors get to France, where Boston's Curley will join the party, Mayor William Frederick Broening of Baltimore will have $8,000 in extra spending money. Just before he sailed he decided to accept the back pay from a salary increase which his city granted him in 1927 but which he had hitherto rejected...
...firms from whom 100,000 tractors costing some ?65,000,000 ($325,000,000) would be purchased to carry out a four-year plan of Empire Development. In their willingness to be nominated, I. H. C., Ltd. could understand Director Owen's willingness, which he presently disclosed, to accept ?30,000 for the conduct of "experiments" at his Institute preliminary to the four-year plan. Impressive letters on stationery headed Treasury and Imperial Conference gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary...
...cancer. Later, in Manhattan, Mrs. Conners met the Californians personally. For their further experimental work they could have, she then told them, "The Monastery" which with its 15 acres was worth $1,000,000. She would also see that they had an endowment. Dr. Coffey replied that he would accept the gift only in the name of the Better Health Foundation of California...
...introduction to the Commission's report he says: "No matter how the Christian ethic is defined it remains true that a wide abyss yawns between it and the facts and assumptions of our contemporary industrial civilizations. . . . Shall a Christian busy himself to change the social order and meanwhile accept its limitations and inequalities as a fate which he alone can not change? Do his Christian convictions require and imply action in the political field, and if so what kind of a political program is most consistent with a Christian ethic...