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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was nothing wrong with the ceremonies themselves; and as planned by the H.A.A. they promised to be dignified and impressive. It must be admitted, however, that while many of the spectators might accept the ceremonies in all the deep solemnity which surrounds the anniversary of the end of the World War, still a football crowd does not form quite the appropriate audience for such ceremonies. It is more fitting that the anniversary be observed, as is to be done, by a special service in the quiet of the Chapel, Saturday morning. The one minute of reverent silence seems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGMENT REVERSED | 11/8/1933 | See Source »

...this "attraction" into its midst I do think that these protests are out of order. Convicted criminals must be imprisoned somewhere. I his somewhere must necessarily be in the proximity of some community. If the Government wants to use Alcatraz let the people of the San Francisco Bay area accept it just as citizens we accept unpleasant taxes, jury duty and compulsory military duty in wartime. This prison problem is one phase of our national crime problem and according to last reports San Francisco is still an integral part of the good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Frederick would soon go home without anything having been settled except another "token payment" by Britain in December, signifying that her debt ($4,500,000,000) still stands and will be paid, in part, whenever the U. S. decides how many of what kind of dollars it will accept. Looming on the President's list of callers and obstructing Sir Frederick's visit further was Comrade Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, coming from Moscow this week to discuss Russian Recognition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Three Dollars | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...open letter to President Howard Davis of American Newspaper Publishers Association he described the NRA as "a handicap and not a help to recovery." He did not specify his objections but said: "The NRA is simply a program of social better ment, nothing else; and industry can accept and endure this program on a large scale only after it has recovered, not before. ... As a matter of fact, it is universally impracticable, and if persisted in will become universally detrimental. . . . It would seem to me ... in view of the fact that the NRA is a menace to political rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ford Is Out | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...First big Manhattan bank to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C., Manufacturers Trust Co. last week took action, announced it would accept $25,000,000 from the R. F. C.* To prove to the public that Manufacturers Trust was just being generous to the Administration and did not need the money, President Harvey Gibson advertised at the same time that the bank's dividend, suspended because of uncertainty during the banking holiday, but continuing to be amply earned, would be resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Downtown | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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