Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slates: Independent Voters Association, "Real Non-Partisan League" and Governor Langer's Non-Partisan League proper. While his enemies bitterly cried for his defeat as "a convicted criminal." William Langer stood on his record. Was it not better, asked friends of "the poor man's Governor," to accept campaign funds from the rank-&-file than to solicit them from rich corporations which would expect fat State favors? On their ballots. North Dakotans, rich & poor, thundered "Yes!" Governor Langer was renominated with 115,000 votes, a majority of 15,000 over all other candidates, including Democrats...
When news of this reached Berlin peppery Dr. Schacht, boiling with rage, rushed around to the afternoon teaparty for the foreign press and diplomats at the Ministry of Propaganda (see p. 16). "Nobody will expect Germany to accept such a clearance system!" he snapped at the assembled correspondents, reminding them that while Germany has a favorable trade balance with the United Kingdom she has an unfavorable balance with the British Empire as a whole. This fact gave Dr. Schacht a chance to threaten "complete rejection of all further intercourse" with the Empire, should the Kingdom crack down on Germany...
...Roosevelt, who usually lets the Blue Eagle fight its own battles, sent this message: "People who cannot see the forests for the trees make much of controversy in various groups which meet in NRA-employers, consumers, employes. NRA was deliberately conceived in controversy. . . . Before the people of this country accept either preconceived conjectures of ill-informed commentators or the fulminations of minorities which still seek special and selfish privileges, we shall consider the results already achieved and look forward to greater gains on behalf of orderly progress for honest labor and honest industry." Nevertheless it seemed likely that NRA would...
...find buyers enough to absorb the monthly quotas. Administrator King got the leading fabricators to agree last month to fill most of their requirements out of freshly mined copper. The industry liked his tactics so well that last week it was reported that he would resign from NRA to accept an executive position with the Copper Code Authority. When General Johnson sent the copper code to the President he remarked that if all the copper mines in the U.S. shut down, the country would get along for 18 months on the supply already above ground. Two weeks later April consumption...
...delivery boys. Snapped he: "I shall certainly oppose the modifications at the hearing and refuse to assent to them if NRA seeks to enforce them on publishers. Of course by the specific terms of our code no modification thereof can be made effective against the publisher who refused to accept it." Ready to meet all comers at the hearing was the National Child Labor Committee which argued that any shortage of newsboys caused by the amendment can be easily filled by boys over 16 or by handicapped adults. "Newspaper selling and delivery." declared the committee, "is an unsuitable occupation...