Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipping. Soon their talk of an industry-wide walkout would lose its bite. Easy-going Dr. Leo Wolman's Automobile Labor Board, appointed by the President to settle the industry's collective bargaining problem, infuriated the labor organizers by giving them no pat decision to reject or accept. The Board, however, did begin a careful survey of the union status (company or A. F. of L.) of thousands of automobile workers to determine accurately the question of representational apportionment in individual motor plants. In disgust, Fisher Body employes in St. Louis chucked their A. F. of L. charter...
...Cabinet met with President Lebrun and signed five of the emergency decrees outlined fortnight ago (TIME, April 16) which will pare $264,000,000 from government expenses. BUT the balance will be possible only if France's gigantic army of civil servants and her War veterans agree to accept the projected cuts in salaries and pensions...
...younger brother Yukichi who had been adopted as a child by the family of Shirakami and taken that name. The General felt that he was still responsible for his brother's acts, whatever his name, and Yukichi, as Deputy Mayor of Tokyo, had been convicted of accepting a bribe to permit Tokyo Gas Co. to increase its capitalization. Five members of the Japanese Diet, two sheriffs and 16 Tokyo officials had already got mild sentences for that crime, most of them suspended. But the judges clamped on Yukichi a sentence of ten months in jail...
...aviation." Cord's advance into the air transport field had begun in 1931 when its independent Century and Century Pacific Lines were started, nuclei for "the largest air passenger and express unit in the world." Unable to get mail contracts, even when he dramatically offered to accept 30? a mile (half the rate then paid), Cord had feinted by selling out to Aviation Corp., huge holding company for American Airways of which, after a bitter proxy fight, he soon captured control. With Avco's American Airways he got 28% of the mail. Now he was an insider instead...
...from the pioneer operators . . . and put into the hands of speculators." President Richard W. Robbins of TWA growled: "Postmaster General Farley has extended an open invitation for all the crapshooters of the vintage of 1929. . . ." It is fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt flew via American Airways to Chicago to accept his nomination (paying for ten tickets); that Mrs. Roosevelt used American Airways on her western trip last year, and Postmaster General Farley on his Texas junket to "rediscover" Vice President Garner; that the Post Office Department has been willing to hold up a mail plane for an hour...