Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's office was crowded with Cabinet members and ranking Congressmen. Facing Chief Justice Fred Vinson, George Catlett Marshall took the oath as Secretary of State. Beaming Harry Truman stepped forward to shake his hand, said warmly that he appreciated "very much your willingness to accept this burden." Secretary Marshall replied gravely: "I'll do my best...
Geneva In the Spring. Since trade is a two-way street, that policy could not be conclusive. The importance of what the U.S. laid on the line would be measured in the end by what the rest of the world was ready to accept. The rest of the world had its own problems and objectives. But it was the U.S. which would make the first offer, and last week the rest of the world watched with closest interest...
Both the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and T.W.A. seemed satisfied with the board's decisions, which they had agreed in advance to accept. Most other airlines expected that the new wage scale would provide a pattern for all airlines. For T.W.A. and the other major airlines, the increases would be moderate...
...French school that connects Gallic tradition with purely Greek and Roman origins and abhors the "barbarian" influences of Anglo-Saxondom. The study of General De Gaulle (written when the Free French had their headquarters in London) has much to say about the traditional reluctance of the French to accept a leader whose feet are not actually on French soil. And in addition to his wealth of purely French material, Author Brogan draws constantly and easily on analogies and contrasts from British and U.S. history and characteristics (he is probably one of the few English scholars who can quote, virtually...
Slyly, Tydings proposed that the standing Expenditures Committee do the war investigating. The chairman of Expenditures, Vermont's George Aiken, would conduct a scrupulously fair investigation, as Democrats well know. "If the Senate should not accept my amendment," Tydings said with relish, "the Senate would insult every member, Democratic and Republican, of [Aiken's] committee. I cannot see how in the public interest the Senate can now go back on their own child [the reorganization act] and adopt a foster child of somewhat bastard parentage...