Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genuinely elated. The McDuffie-Tydings is the old Hawes-Cutting bill (which the Philippines rejected last year) except for the fact the U. S. agrees to give up its Army bases on the islands. The factions having fought themselves into a compromise, all had to accept it, though nearly everyone believed that the gradual rise of the U. S. tariff against Philippine sugar would eventually ruin the islands. However, with the President's cheery words still ringing in his ears, Senor Quezon left the White House saying, "I am very happy. . . ." In far off Manila Governor General Murphy...
...Wyoming and national vice chairman, resigned to continue her job as Directress of the Mint. ¶Jed Cobb Adams, Committeeman from Texas, resigned to continue in his job on the Board of Tax Appeals-a resignation offered in May 1933 but which Mr. Farley did not see fit to accept for ten months. ¶ Mrs. Catherine Rouse Conner, in charge of information for Federal Surplus Relief Corp.. resigned to retain her post as Committeewoman from Kentucky. Others still to resign last week included U. S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian, Committeeman from Ohio; Second Assistant Postmaster General William Washington Howes...
...restoring the 15% Federal pay cut (TIME, March 19). If the Senate version became law, it would have nullified more than half the savings which the President made a year ago under the Economy Act. The President let the House know that he would veto the bill if it accepted the Senate amendments. Only a few days earlier the House had defied the threat of a veto in passing the greenback bonus bill. That, however, was only a political gesture for home consumption since no one expected the bonus bill to become law. Last week in what...
...clipper will be factory-tested as soon as the Housatonic River is free of ice. Pan American will test it from New York to Miami, will accept it when it proves itself able to fly 1,250 mi. nonstop at 150 m.p.h. with full complement of passengers, crew and mail. It will probably be slated for the run from Miami to Buenos Aires, which it is expected to cut from seven days to five. If so, it will become the world's biggest and fastest airplane in Regular over-water service...
...year ago, when the Philippine Legislature refused to accept their independence on the terms of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill, the principal monkey wrenches in the machines of ratification were the provisions that the United States Army and Naval bases would not be given up to Philippine control, and that a practically prohibitive sugar tariff would be levied at once. There is hardly any question as to the justice of the Island objections to harboring American Army bases on their otherwise independent soil. Obviously, independence in such a case would be but a gesture of none too friendly diplomacy...