Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington. He was promptly received by the Secretary of State. Together they bent over a long, incredible dispatch signed Frederick Moore. It purported to reveal that the Chinese Republic had just received a secret ultimatum from the Japanese Empire to the following effect: The President of China must accept Japanese protection of China and in return must sign over certain powers to the Emperor of Japan. These powers included control of the Chinese Army, the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Treasury, the Chinese Police and other items of sovereignty. Finally Japan demanded that the President of China must keep all this...
...Unrestrained condemnation of the gambling spirit uttered in ex cathedra fashion by the more articulate critics is likely to prove unconvincing to pupils who themselves indulge in gambling or who have friends who easily accept it as a natural bit of behavior in the sport...
...Barthou was pumped full of bullets before he could persuade the British Government to act without Germany. British diplomacy, harping away century after century upon the old string "Divide & Rule," does not readily accept a solution which would screw down everything too tight in Europe...
...Accept the humble congratulations of a schoolteacher and long TIME subscriber on an excellently written No. 1 article in America's No. 1 magazine...
...Chicago. Publisher McCormick of the Tribune put Boettiger on the case. He stuck to it, wrote the Tribune's stories on it, right up to the capture and conviction of Leo V. ("Buster") Brothers (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). In 1932 when Franklin D. Roosevelt flew to Chicago to accept the Democratic nomination, Col. McCormick assigned John Boettiger to cover the Democratic Nominee. From that time he followed the Roosevelts, to Albany, to Hyde Park, to the Pacific Coast, to Warm Springs, to Washington. And soon other newshawks noted that he and Mrs. Dall got on well together. In November...