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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy is forced, says Mussolini, to lower costs drastically. And this, thanks to Fascism, she will be able to do: there are no trade unions to block the cut in wages. Labor will take it on the jaw, and if it does not enjoy it, will at any rate accept it with the customary vivas for II Duce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 12/14/1933 | See Source »

...this ducal cue up popped the Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary of State for Air. "We cannot accept continuance of our present inferiority," he declared for the Government. "If parity cannot be secured by reductions elsewhere we will have no option but to build upward. [Cries of "Hear, hear!"] Our present relative weakness in the air cannot be allowed to continue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...make such arrangement as may be deemed just and practicable with the view of securing for Newfoundland a reduction in the present burden of the public debt, and whereas Your Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have signified their readiness subject to the approval of parliament to accept the recommendations of the Royal Commission and have detailed proposals for carrying those recommendations into effect, now therefore Your Majesty may graciously be pleased to, suspend the letters patent under the great seal and to issue new letters patent which should provide for the administration of the island until such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWFOUNDLAND: NEWFOUNDLAND Great Sentence | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

...question whether all countries will accept the Soviet, American, French or British method of disarmament and control. . . . Let the [Disarmament] Conference put two simple questions to its members: Will they agree to any serious reduction of armaments and will they submit to any control? [see p. 16]. . . . Such an answer would be of decisive importance and would sound the death knell of the Conference and therefore perhaps Geneva will endeavor to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Caviar to Litvinoff | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...imports. It was learned that President Roosevelt had listened sympathetically to a Brain Trust idea of forming a government corporation to handle the entire wholesale liquor business. When the distillers submitted a code of fair competition, they saw it thrown in the wastebasket. Last week they were asked to accept a code, drawn by a special Roosevelt committee, which imposed rigid Federal control on the whole liquor business until Congress could tackle the subject. Provisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rum Rush | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

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