Word: accepteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most important domestic problems in American life. ... There are many cities and towns now where the local C. I. O. and A. F. of L. are ... in closest harmony. . . . The two factions, as they are called, are really not factions. They realize that their interests are the same. I accept the premise that both sides want peace. ... I am counting on you to succeed...
...Chamberlain, visibly disturbed, attempted to soothe the Opposition by reading a telegram which he had received from General Franco, giving what the Prime Minister chose to interpret as "assurances" that Loyalist rights would be respected. When Mr. Chamberlain read a Franco passage saying that "Spain is not disposed to accept any foreign intervention which might injure her dignity or sovereignty," the Opposition laughed derisively and long. But the Government had the last laugh, defeating the censure motion...
...furnished functionaries to the Holy See for two centuries, Eugenic Pacelli rose swiftly. During the World War he was Nuncio at Munich, a channel through which went many diplomatic negotiations, including Pope Benedict XV's famed peace proposals. By the time he returned to Rome in 1929 to accept his red hat, Cardinal Pacelli had arranged papal concordats with Bavaria, with Prussia. Two months later he succeeded aging Cardinal Gasparri as Secretary of State...
...elements. Some years ago he lectured at Cornell, is remembered there as an "outstanding scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also went to Nobel Laureate Irene Curie-Joliot (daughter of Marie...
...followers of the exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, were inclined to hold out for their original demands-complete Arab control of an independent Palestine-but the moderate Palestine Arabs and the Arabs from the other nations represented at the Round-Table meeting were disposed to accept the British plan. In Palestine, Arabs openly demonstrated their satisfaction with the British suggestions. Arab crowds took to the streets to celebrate "the reconquest of Palestine from the British." In the Holy Land this week bloody clashes among Jews, Arabs and British police in two days left more than...