Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty dollars must accompany an application for admission to the Law School, and Erwin N. Griswold, conscientious Dean, will accept no more. He yesterday returned the $1,000,020 admission check at the right to the National Bank of New Jersey as being somewhat too large...
...returned to Washington this week, to find that Democratic bosses had been burning the wires to a worried J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. McGrath hastened to the President. He came out of the conference to announce flatly: "If nominated by the convention [Mr. Truman] will accept...
...York City's James A. Farley, who got almost as much applause as the President did at the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner a fortnight ago (TIME, March I) was asked last week during a radio press interview (Mutuals Meet the Press) if he would accept a Democratic nomination as Vice President. Big Jim promptly boomed the shortest, clearest, most emphatic political statment...
Last week Vandenberg sent off a last-minute protest. McConnell fired back a flat question: "If you were nominated by the Republican convention, would you accept?" Replied Vandenberg: "I decline to speculate...
...fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation as a lover of peace who is trying to find a way to avoid World...