Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance for a man to go to Germany and learn about Hitlerism from its sources. Almost anybody would jump at such an opportunity. The main problem, which has raised its ugly and leering head concerns the qualifications of the donor. It is fairly obvious that a college should not accept gifts from an Al Capone if only on moral grounds: so the aims of Germany must be scrutinized since Dr. Hanfstaengl represents what Germany stands...
Anent the vituperative letter of one George Eustis Corcoran (TIME, May 21) relative to your publication of Samuel Insull's bashful physiognomy and the reporting of the Astor-Gillespie folderol, may we accept the compliment of "Being on a level" with TIME...
...Congress to recall and amend it. The bill's sponsors, Representative Dickstein and Senator Copeland, grumbling at the demand for a change, went to the White House, found that the State Department had found a real flaw. They took the measure back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days later the President blessed it with his signature. ¶Under special powers granted by the Recovery Act, President Roosevelt last week upped the tariff on Japanese cotton rugs from 10? to 25? a sq. yd. The increase, 150%, was three times that which...
...thought they deserved more than the President had sent them. One was Senator Pittman's Nevada colleague, independent Patrick Aloysius McCarran. Others were Idaho's Borah, Montana's Wheeler, Oklahoma's Thomas, Louisiana's Long. It was a foregone conclusion, however, that Congress would accept the President's offering and pretend to like it. Meantime interested persons made an inventory of the President's second casket: Sop No. 1. The U. S. will increase the amount of silver in its monetary stocks until the proportion reaches 25% silver, 75% gold. This is, however...
...direct loans program will go toward loosening the long-term capital market will depend on how liberally its administrators accept collateral. The bill stipulated that borrowers must be solvent and collateral adequate. All applications are to be submitted first to the Federal Reserve. If rejected there, they may be taken to RFC without prejudice. How liberal Jesse Jones, who has been yammering "Loosen up!" to bankers for months, will be may be guessed from the fact that one of his chief ambitions is to match the record of Eugene Meyer's War Finance Corp., which paid back...