Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning, Harry Truman waited around to see if the Shah would join him in his morning constitutional. The Shah was not used to the President's early hours, but he was up in time to accept a specially built 30-06 hunting rifle with a silver butt-plate engraved: "From the President to the Shahinshah of Iran." Said the President : "A very earnest and sincere young...
...rulings were rare items: Assembly decisions that would stick. In the peace treaty with Italy, the Big Four had agreed in advance that they would accept U.N.'s recommendations...
...exchange for these concessions the Germans would have to promise to: 1) take their assigned seats on the Ruhr Authority set up by the Western powers last April, and thereby formally accept international control of the Ruhr's industrial output; 2) make some public statement indicating acceptance of continuing military security inspection by the Western powers; 3) cooperate in reforming the hidebound German civil service and decartelizing German industry...
...your people to live and survive," said Laurel on the stump, "I would do it over again." Through the campaign Laurel worked desperately to rid himself of a reputation for being anti-American; he never quite shook it off. He also made much of his personal honesty, which Filipinos accept. But between the Quirino and Laurel machines, Filipinos had a Hobson's choice. No one doubts that Laurel's followers would be as corrupt as Quirino's if their candidate became President...
...even if the Navy could use such evidence to prove subversiveness, the asking has a serious deterrent effect far outweighing its value as providing information. 2.) Even if we could be sure that the lists of "subversive" organizations, made up without due process, are entirely accurate, we cannot accept the premise that members of subversive organizations are ipso facto subversive themselves. Obviously there can be more than the two reasons mentioned for remaining in both the NROTC and a subversive group...