Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Univcrsity of Pennsylvania library has expressed its willingness to accept, and as no U. of P. alumnus has asked the privilege, TIME is entering non-U.-of-P.-Alumnus Kaufman's gift subscription forthwith. To him, thanks...
Dies Bill, as passed by the House (TIME, March 26) would give the Administration power to accept silver at 25% above market value in payment from foreign nations for exports of U. S. farm surpluses. Last week the Senate Committee on Agriculture added two amendments that changed the measure's whole nature: 1) To order the Treasury to take over all silver in the U. S. and pay for it in silver certificates at "not less than the highest world price for spot fine silver on the day preceding . . . the proclamation of the nationalization of silver." 2) To order...
...gave him the public recognition which he deserved. General Johnson settled the threatened coal strike by amendments to the bituminous coal code that cut hours from eight to seven per day, raised wages. The Appalachian coal operators, in whose mines the United Mine workers are strongest, were prompt to accept the agreement. The operators of the South and Southwest, who in years past have worsted the United Mine Workers, stood out against the change, maintained that higher freight rates from their mines necessitated lower wages. The Alabama operators even went so far as to shut down their mines to obtain...
...longer the stinging Harrison of yore, he yielded ground to them, even yielded to Huey Long who baited him as he would have baited ten years ago. Before the Senate rewrite was complete. Senator Harrison had agreed to accept amendments that would turn the House's bill to save $250,000,000 from tax leaks into an out-&-out revenue bill to raise $500,000,000 from U. S. taxpayers...
...products each time they desired one of them, he would most certainly fail, yet this is just the type of selling which is embodied in the current practice of block booking of movies. The producers force the exhibitors to contract for a whole block of pictures which they must accept regardless of their merits. The theater owners are unable to oppose this system for they must have a frequent change of program and delays in the arrival of film are fatal to them...