Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conviction, unpopular as it was articulate, that victory held nothing for Austria, Professor Schumpeter was appointed in 1915 to the Commission for the Socialization of industry in Berlin, on which he served until the socialist premier Renner called him to Vienna in 1918 to accept the Finance portfolio in the new coalition government being formed to replace that of the recently abdicated Emperor Charles...
Going great guns last week was a full-sized trade war between France and Britain. Repeal in the U. S. was largely to blame. Fighting for a larger share of the newly-established liquor trade, France agreed to accept greatly increased quotas of U. S. apples and pears in return for more wine shipped to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 1). Anxious as France is to help her vintners, she is still more firmly bound to the quota system and economic self-sufficiency. Hence some other import quotas had to be decreased, and it was the British that suffered. British...
...Hofnagel is a well-to-do farmer of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, known and respected from Allentown to Lancaster as a potent "hex-doctor." A seventh son, he believes implicitly in his own powers. He informs a village woman that if she would know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits...
...sale urged its readers to use the same tactics in "the next round with the octopus." Editor Baker is campaigning for funds to defray legal expenses for 300 other water-rate strikers. Invited by the water company, after two denials, to attend a rate conference, Editor Baker refused to accept the settlement offer, has been barred from all future meetings. Meanwhile Editor Baker holds proxies for almost all the Transcript's 1,713 readers...
...Christian Socialists, which has just been made by Prince Starhemberg, can come as no surprise to him, for when he resolved to crush the Socialists with the aid of the Heimwehr, he must have known that he could not temporize or adopt any half measures, that he must accept the Fascist doctrine in toto. One may, accordingly, look for the disappearance of Dollfuss's party in the near future; and, I think that it is also extremely likely that Dollfuss himself will soon follow it into oblivion, for the Heimwehr will eventually be absorbed into the larger fabric of Italian...