Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cuba. He dared not risk discontent among his lighting men, but slashed the pay of meek civil servants as much as 35%. But last week, in Rome the Original, the One & Only Benito Mussolini announced that every man or woman employed in any capacity by the Italian Government will accept on Dec. 1, 1930 wage cuts as follows...
This proposal had a significance deeper than the mere transfer of functions. The Public Health Service in recent years has become more and more important in the Government. Last spring it was strengthened by the creation of the National Institute of Health, which is empowered to accept private donations for research. The medical profession hopes that it will become a department of public health with its chief in the President's Cabinet. In Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, a doctor, other doctors believe they have a powerful advocate...
...several racks of coats knocked over and one of the smaller clerks was also knocked down. They immediately began to ask for the $58.75 coats at $8.94. Clerks pointed to signs explaining the mistake, but the women, particularly the group which had shoved me in, refused to accept any explanation. Their leader even went so far as to mount a chair and begin a speech using such expressions as "Don't let them get away with it," and "I never got such treatment in Gimbels." Of course this didn't last long because Macy employes soon outnumbered...
...first "lame ducks" to be received by the President after the election was Henry Justin Allen, Senator-reject from Kansas. Citizen Allen emerged from the White House loudly denying that he was looking for or would accept any Federal lame-duck roost...
...their statesmen are advancing toward Disarmament and Peace. Said a spokes man for Count von Bernstorff: "Better a failure and the knowledge of where we stand than this endless prolongation of discussion!" Without daring to propose anything so radical in open meeting, the German dele gation hinted readiness to accept the following proposal : Let every nation in the world agree to limit its artillery to one battery per 1,000,000 citizens. Quickly it became apparent that not even in the single category of artillery are the nations ready even for limitation, much less for disarmament...