Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pease accept a statement in reference to TIME'S story under the head "Negro Baptists," on p. 34 of issue of Aug. 25. The story states that Chicago newspapers, according to the colored churchmen, failed to report on the Nations (colored) Baptist convention in retaliation for the colored boycott on "loop" merchants who refuse to employ colored help...
...three months the wife's attorney files her complaint at the court house. If her husband cooperates with her-and most of them do-he has al ready accepted service of the complaint, arranged for another lawyer to represent him, to plead nolo contendere. On hearing day the wife, her lawyer, the hus band's lawyer and the wife's witness who swears to her three months' state residence march up the 13 steps of the court house, climb to the second floor, enter the judge's chambers. The average hearing does not take more...
...recent killings seem to have involved, besides the Hip Sings and On Leongs, traditional enemies, the four other principal Tongs, neutrals in past "wars." Federal deportation-threats and New York City police made the Tongs accept two ineffective peace treaties. Killings continued, baffling police. Last week in Manhattan U. S. District Attorney Charles H. Tuttle decided to set up his own "Benevolent Association." He summoned leaders from all six Tongs, got them to sign an agreement whereby each will appoint delegates to a new committee of arbitration, whose decisions they pledge to abide by. They also agreed...
...Ralph Wilder, self-made patriarch, has spent his aggressive life patching together acres of farm and forest land in upper New York State. By the time his family is grown up he owns or controls the whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many...
...governorship of the U. S. Federal Reserve Board (public office, salary $12,000), to replace the late William P. Gould Harding as governor of the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston (private office, salary $30,000). In 1923 Mr. Harding also resigned the governorship of the U. S. board to accept that of the Boston bank...