Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deal, including President Roosevelt, is scared to death of the movement in this country for you. ... I am certain that unless this New Deal can be stopped this time our American way of life is forever doomed. You owe it to civilization and the children yet unborn to accept the nomination. . . . You will be our next President...
Unconditional surrender is an American idea dating from the U.S. Civil War, a conflict in which one side or the other had to give in completely. Europe offers no U.S. parallel. "No European nation or coalition of nations is in a position effectively to accept the unconditional surrender of another nation, that is, to manage and govern it, unless in fact it is prepared to annex...
...King was slow in cabling his approval of Venizelos as Premier. Venizelos said that he would not take the job. The Cabinet then suggested George Roussos, elderly liberal and onetime Vice Premier. Roussos agreed to accept if asked, but now the King named Venizelos. When the next huddle broke up, Tsouderos was back in the driver's seat and all the members were straightening their ties...
...stepped the King's heir, six-foot Umberto, Prince of Piedmont, with an offer to become his father's keeper while the old King kept the crown. By no means fond of Umberto but for want of anything better, anti-Fascist leaders were in a mood to accept...
...solid business. He went to India for the great Andrew Yule & Co. (cable address: Yuletide), and in 1930 became a partner in Morgan Grenfell & Co., at that time J. P. Morgan & Co., which still has a large investment in the company. In 1940 he resigned all director ships to accept an unpaid, specially created job as advisor to the British Treasury...