Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After the funeral Herbert Lehman returned to his summer place at nearby Purchase, picked up the telephone, dictated a 25-word statement to his secretary in Albany: "If my party desires me to be a candidate for the office of U. S. Senator to succeed Senator Copeland, I will accept the nomination." Some leaders rejoiced, others fumed. Franklin Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley got together for a hasty conference. But such are the rules of party politics that, by his adroit and well-timed move, Governor Lehman had practically appropriated for himself one place on the ticket which the Roosevelt...
...Chief accomplishment of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's Government was to persuade the London Committee on Non-Intervention to accept the new British plan for withdrawing foreign volunteers and cutting the flow of munitions to both sides in the Spanish Civil War. The Prime Minister's satisfaction was short-lived however as both Liberals and Laborites tied into him, subjected him to a two-day tongue lashing in the House of Commons such as he had not experienced since he took office year...
Observers agree that the Reich will attempt to unsnarl her tangle by selling more abroad, particularly to Great Britain, but British financial interests, which stand to lose most on the Austrian loans, are unlikely to accept such a solution until the loans are settled. Britain holds an ax over the Reich because she can deduct German debts from the money Britons owe German exporters. Last week, the potent Association of British Chambers of Commerce urged that the exchange clearing bill, passed in 1934 but never implemented, be enforced. But as such a move would blight Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...another commencement speaker, aware that for some 500,000 of this year's graduates there are no jobs, drew a dismal picture of the world. Said New York University's Class Orator Paul H. Kahan: "The boys are prepared to lay down their caps and gowns and accept the pick and shovel of the WPA, if necessary. . . ." At all this Scripps-Howard Columnist Hugh S. Johnson stormed: "The present fashion of going around this nation telling people how miserable they are, how rotten their country is, what little opportunity they have to better themselves, and therefore what their...
...committee of famed football coaches were to call on the average U. S. college president and offer him as a student a halfback like Red Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain...