Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a sly grin, Wendell Willkie used the quotation to make a telling point: the Republican Party need not accept the stencil that it is the party of high tariffs and protectionism; it should take the lead today in bringing about renewal of reciprocal trade treaties and Lend-Lease extension...
Friends say he passed up a $100,000-a-year offer from a New York law firm to accept Franklin Roosevelt's $12,500 court appointment. Washington's thinning band of original New Dealers, in which Thurman Arnold was a whimsical free lancer, shuddered to think of him in a black gown. Philosophized Arnold: "I guess I'm like the Marx brothers-they can be awfully funny for a long while, but finally people get tired of them. A lot of the bureaucrats are not only tired of me but also awfully sore...
...cannot," he said, "accept the views that a power is entitled to possess naval forces generally superior to those of others on account of the vastness of its overseas possessions and the extensiveness of the lines of communication it has to protect. If such a view were correct, how could one explain why there should be parity between Britain and the United States?" Nagano went home, Japan completed its present fleet-on a ratio limited not by treaty but by Japan's ability to compete industrially...
Government heads in China have never doubted that Britain and the United States would continue the war until Japan was forced to accept "unconditional surrender," according to the exambassador. They have never feared a separate peace by their Western allies after Hitler has been overthrown in Europe...
Assistant Dean Rodman W. Paul '36, in charge of Juniors and Seniors, yesterday announced hs intention to retire from his University Hall office to accept a commission in the Navy. His duties will be taken over by Charles W. Duhig, acting director of Student employment, Dean A. Chester Hanford said yesterday...