Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote-getting Frank Murphy to bolster the ticket in Michigan, exactly as he drafted New York's popular, vote-getting Governor Herbert H. Lehman last month, President Roosevelt promptly rewarded him with the same kind of job insurance he gave Postmaster General Farley last week. Graciously declining to accept the High Commissioner's resignation, the President loaded the dice in Frank Murphy's $13,000 gamble by granting him a two-month leave of absence without pay, ending two days after elections...
...more than $25,000 a year. These conditions satisfied, the Authority will submit for bids the company's plans for new ships to U. S. shipyards, which in turn must agree to return to the Government profit in excess of 10%, for the job. The Authority will accept the lowest bid, but will contract to sell the finished product to the operator at a figure equal to the cost of building the ship in a foreign yard. This figure is almost certain to be lower than the cost in the U. S. The difference constitutes the subsidy paid...
...heart that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They begin to know that here in America we are waging a great war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is a war for the survival of democracy. . . . "I accept the commission you have tendered...
...premises were in the third week of a "stay-in-strike." Over to the American Hospital and down into its basement hurried Minister of Interior Roger Salen-gro to "personally intervene." By nightfall he had got the strikers to abandon their more fantastic demands, persuaded the American Hospital to accept the rest, including higher pay, shorter hours...
...Canadian Province of Alberta which elected W. C. Aberhart as Premier on a Social Credit platform recently (1 made the platform effective and began paying a $25-a-month dividend to every citizen, 2 defaulted payment on two bond issues, 3 refused to accept financial aid from the Dominion Treasury, 4 impeached its Premier, 5 prevailed upon the founder of Social Credit to assist in making the plan effective...