Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he likes "to work with men and to watch organizations grow," Lt. Col. A.L. Tuttle, USA, Retired, quit Harvard recently to accept an appointment at Father Flanagan's Boys' Town, at Omaha, Nebraska, where he will head a military training unit. Registered as a first-term Freshman, Lt. Col. Tuttle was at 60 the oldest undergraduate at Harvard...
...Smoothed. The Italian Cabinet allowed that it would accept as an apology an explanation that: 1) Prime Minister Winston Churchill had not been fully quoted when he made the condescending remark in his recent speech to the House of Commons that "we need Italy no more than we need Spain"; 2) he was merely answering the suggestion that Britain was embarking on a system of power politics in the Mediterranean...
There was the stubborn fact of Poland. Having recognized the Polish Government at Warsaw, it was unlikely that Russia would accept any major changes in it at the insistence of Britain and the U.S. Poland was a test problem of the Big Three meeting...
Early last week Halifax officers of the U.S. War Shipping Administration decided to try to save what cargo was still aboard and recover what had been removed. Newspaper advertisements asked salvagers to bring in their "take," accept U.S. cash awards. Salvaging firms and stevedoring companies went to work...
...Many cannot quit a job without permission. No one can even advertise for a job, or for a worker, without a permit. N.S.S. Director Arthur MacNamara (also Deputy Minister of Labor) is empowered to shift any worker to a job where he is needed more. Transferred workers must accept the wage rates paid by the employer to whom they are assigned, no matter how much more they may have been getting at their old jobs. In cases where workers thus suffer reductions in income, the Government may pay a maximum of $12.50 a week in compensation. Since the law went...