Word: acceptances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compatible with the restrictions which had already been, and were to be, made in student budgets. But it is startling that such a step should be taken at a time when the University's income is known to be severely reduced, and when all departments have been forced to accept drastic cuts in their appropriations...
...debtor powers, hear their arguments for revision. Complicating factors were the proposed World Economic Conference and the moribund Disarmament Conference at Geneva. Governor Roosevelt listened to this long recital in silence, nodded his head in comprehension if not agreement, promised nothing. He repeated what he had said in accepting President Hoover's invitation: that, as he was not yet President, he could not be asked to accept Presidential responsibility...
...would leave his hotel, he said, would be for a White House banquet where his presence was required. The next Vice President explained: "If I should go to one I would have to go to all. Mrs. Garner and I have made it a fast rule not to accept any social invitations. We prefer carrying on the practice of 'early to bed and early to rise' we began years...
...William Green refused to accept us, the representatives of the rank & file of Labor, who have come to present our demands!" shouted aggrieved Painter Wreinstock as he was hustled out of the hotel...
Four days later Comrade Trotsky popped out of hiding long enough to accept $1,000 for a thick, halting and at times unintelligible radio address in English to U. S. citizens, and $5,000 for a similar talk to U. S. sound newsreel cameras. Visibly nervous, Speaker Trotsky was then escorted by police to Copenhagen's Sports Palace where he spoke to 2,500 Danes in German, darting glances about the hall, twitching his hands and seemingly afraid that someone might throw a bomb at any moment...