Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message to Congress will tell the story. It will be a turning point in Roosevelt policies. If it shows there is to be a limit to spending--even if it is two years or three years off--and a plan for raising revenue is included, the investing public will accept the program as feasible, for they know Uncle Sam has unexampled resources. If there is no such sign of a let-up in spending and the country is to drift on, the reaction will be unfavorable. Washington is guessing that the President will be found on the side of restricted...
...plunge has the whole world before him: costs, prices, investment, labor policies all become problems to be handled within the framework of the social determination to do something actively and consciously about controlling social destinies. If on the other hand he feels unable to take this plunge he must accept the opposite alternative of damning the whole movement toward control. One thing that is not likely to be of much use to any one is criticism on special points from those who refuse to accept the fundamental premises from which the work they are criticizing proceeds...
...Inaugural Address. I did not like it then. . . . What is a money changer? If it is one who desired to change money, that is to alter money, then I wonder which one of us four is the greatest money changer. ... I can see that the good Senator does not accept my definition. Can it be that his is the scriptural definition? . . He [the money changer] was thrown out of the Temple not because his business was an evil business but because the Temple was not the proper place in which to conduct it. ... With him went those that sold doves...
...Court, added Judge Bünger, could not accept Van der Lubbe's confession that he set the fire alone. The Court was sure he had accomplices. Who they were the Court did not know. But the Court was sure they were Communists...
...done in 1899 by the late Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched...