Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...During World War 1, U. S. Secretaries of State Bryan and Lansing constantly protested such searches as contrary to international law. In practice, neutrals have come to accept the hard-boiled point of view of Great Britain's Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George: that since the attitude of a belligerent is governed by "the exigencies of deadly strife, the country which is determined at all costs to remain neutral must be prepared to pocket its pride and put up with repeated irritations and infringements of its interests . . . and should the difficulties of neutrality prove too great...
These apocalyptic questions boiled down to one-what would Italy get if she backed up her peace proposal with a threat to go in with Germany and Russia? That a peace proposal was imminent few doubted. That Britain and France would accept it few believed. Britons, believing that its main purpose was to make Britain appear to be guilty of continuing the war, accepted its challenge beforehand. Said Winston Churchill, in a speech on war aims that observers believed made him a real candidate for Prime Minister...
...from execution only by the personal intervention of A. Hitler. When interrogated about the alleged GÖring deposit, Tamotsu Nishida, manager of Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., declared: "Oh, there must be some mistake. We are only a foreign branch for the home office at Osaka. . . . We don't accept deposits." In Washington, SEC admitted having received the British information on A. Hitler & Co.'s foreign holdings prior to its publication, having used it in checking the registration of a proposed German bond issue (TIME, Aug. 14), now withdrawn. Washington credited A. Hitler, too, with having money abroad: about...
Vowed to hospitality as well as to poverty, chastity and obedience, Little Sisters accept gifts but not incomes or endowments which would require managing property. Once they went through city streets in horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their...
...business votes 41.6% for higher tariffs, 9.9% for lower, 27.7% for no change. The percentage who dont know is 35.7% among big manufacturers, 20.8% among small manufacturers (only 14.9% among small retailers)-thus indicating that those most concerned with tariffs have gradually opened their minds to and begun to accept the idea that it pays to buy from foreigners in order to sell to foreigners...