Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indulged in long intimate hours of what Senator Pat Harrison called "political mumblety-peg." Senator Fess was bitterly disappointed when President Coolidge refused to run for a third term, was more responsible than anyone else for keeping alive the "Draft Coolidge" movement. Having declared that "The Republican Party cannot accept an internationalist as its standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City he subsequently made his peace with Hoover. When the Muscle Shoals lobbying scandal compelled...
...degree. For 24 years it was one of his many duties to award the honorary degrees and take part in the selection of men who were to receive them, and so the man who, above all others, was entitled to a Harvard LL.D. was not in the position to accept...
...teletypes compete with both telegraph companies, sided with Western Union against the imposition of a code. Radio Corp., whose stake in the domestic communications business is relatively small, was willing to sign anything that its competitors did. But President White made it clear that Western Union would accept what he thought was a Postal code only by court order. His counsel, maintaining that Congress had no intention of codifying an industry already regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission, swore that Western Union was ready to wage "a legal contest along all fronts...
President Conant said: "Mrs. Lee, as President of Harvard University and on behalf of the Governing Boards I accept with gratitude your gift of a library of legal medicine. We appreciate most sincerely your generosity, and we are pleased that you have decided to make this University the permanent custodian of this valuable collection...
From the book salesman's viewpoint, the lascivious subject matter of the book will count more against it than for it. What one is willing to accept as a realistic picture of conditions of war becomes repulsive when offered as a view of ordinary life. It is an honest obscenity, one that exists in matter rather than in mind, but it may prove too all-pervasive for the American stomach...