Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Future labor historians will be glad to have Tom Girdler's version of the battle of Little Steel, as his side of the story, but with the evidence of the Senate La Follette Civil Liberties report at hand, they will not accept it as being fully authentic...
Fortas tried once before to join the Army, to chuck his many jobs as Under Secretary (guiding Ickes' power policy, handling U.S. insular possessions, helping supervise the coal industry, tussling with petroleum reserves). President Roosevelt had refused to accept his resignation, wrote: "You can best serve your country by continuing to do your job." Last week, unwilling to wait until his draft deferment expires on Nov. 15, Fortas resigned again, saying "I feel most deeply . . . that I should not be denied the privilege of joining the fighting forces." This time, Secretary Ickes accepted the resignation, but commented, "You have...
...Accept political, economic and financial conditions to be imposed at Allied discretion...
...British planes had flown over France. Eighth Air Force planes alone had flown more than 1,000 daylight sorties (individual missions). The Allies had lost ten planes; the Germans had lost 16 and would have lost many more if they had dared to, or been able to, accept the challenge...
...best part of a week Winston Churchill stayed at the White House, met Washington friends, saw much of his host, Franklin Roosevelt. Then he went north to Cambridge, Mass, to accept an Honorary LL.D. degree from Harvard. At Cambridge he spoke, and the world listened...