Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Predicting that plans for mutual defense of the Americas will get no farther than "pious expressions of good intentions," he said that the previously proposed "American League of Nations" will probably not be adopted. "The small states would only accept such a scheme on a basis of absolute equality of voting power, a plan to which the large states may never agree; this conflict is the real stumbling block," he explained...
...James Roosevelt got an offer good enough to accept from Film Producer Sam Goldwyn (real name: Goldfish), became a Goldwyn vice president obviously for his political protective value...
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans is part of a week-long sport fiesta (yacht races, track meets, boxing, tennis and basketball). An invitation to the Sugar Bowl is worth about $50,000. Quick to accept New Orleans' invitation last week were undefeated Texas Christian and once-defeated (by Notre Dame) Carnegie Tech...
...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
While U. S. campuses rang with denunciations of Adolf Hitler, the Führer last week decorated five U. S. pedagogues with the Order of Merit of the German Eagle. The New York Times promptly wired the professors to find out if they would accept the awards. A reply came from Iowa-born Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep...