Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instituting real economies," abolish duplicating departments in the city government by having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would not have served on the [Fusion] ticket because I would have had to accept the support and laid myself under obligation to Boss Koenig, whom the decent Republicans have just driven from power [TIME, Oct. 2]. ... I could not in conscience support the stupid, arrogant [Tammany] leadership that forces upon the city the well-intentioned but impotent figure of the present Mayor...
...headed "The Education of an Ambassador." "Into this quiet life," he writes, "came the call of President Roosevelt of June 8 to go as envoy to Germany in the hope of improving the relations of the two countries. I hesitated and took counsel with the University authorities only to accept." Ever since he reached Berlin last July, Ambassador Dodd has been taking counsel with the State Department about assaults and indignities meted out to U. S. citizens in Germany by Nazis. Last week the Professor had collected a fistful of 27 affidavits, had received numerous evasive apologies from the German...
...clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. . . . -Revelation, 3: 18. In the Bible there are nearly 100 such references to nakedness. Last week they were cited by the indignant elders of 223-year-old Ponds Reformed Church in Oakland, N. J., in a solemn resolution accepting the resignation of one of their fellows. Rev. Ilsley Boone, longtime elder and sometime supply preacher, has been a prominent and active Nudist for two and one-half years. A small, white-haired, 53-year-old father of seven, he organized Nudist colonies in New Jersey and New England, helped...
...eagle." Ever since then the R. F. C. has been trying in vain to persuade some big bank to issue preferred stock. Last week James Reader Leavell, successor to the Brothers George and Arthur Reynolds as head of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., decided to accept Mr. Jones's offer to have his bank sell $50,000,000 worth of preferred stock. "Other big banks of New York and Chicago are expected soon to fall patriotically in line," chanted the U. S. Press naively. If the issue of preferred stock was planned by Mr. Leavell...
...spite of this, Mr. Hitler was willing to accept from the League any concession, however small, which would have made his position tenable to the anti-League agitators in Berlin. Fortifications on the Russian border, and rehabilitation of a few dismantled fortresses, would have admittedly have satisfied him; but Sir John Simon, seemingly unimaginative, withheld his cooperation, and withdrawal was the Nazi alternative. Perhaps Sir John, and Mr. Henderson, were justified in their refusal, but it is difficult to condone their flat opposition to Mussolini's compromise...