Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is little justification for this exaction from any standpoint. The $40,000 is being spent, not for the purpose of getting work done, but for the purpose of getting men through College. The fact that the donation puts those who accept it under obligation to the University is not a reason for the University to exert its rights, as it is now exerting them, to its own detriment...
James M. Landis, professor of Legislation at the Harvard Law School, has been appointed by President Roosevelt a member of the Federal Trade Commission in supervision of the Securities Act, which he helped to draft. In order to accept the appointment Professor Landis announced his withdrawal from candidacy for the Cambridge City Council...
Comrade Gourevitch had just one answer to everything the Big Four asked Russia to do: "Why should we?" The Big Four insisted that the Soviet Union, which did not sign the World Wheat Pact clause to raise prices by limiting exports next year (TIME, Sept. 4), must accept and abide by a reasonable quota. The Pact was signed on the assumption that Russia could not possibly export more than 50,000,000 bu. The signatories limited themselves as follows: Canada 200,000,000 bu.; Australia 110,000,000; Argentina 105,000,000; U. S. 45,000,000, the Danube countries...
...Chicago went Senator Marconi, to visit the Fair, mingle with Italian societies, eat with the American Legion, broadcast over the Atlantic to his listening King Victor Emmanuel receive an honorary Sc.D. from President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, accept a 28-in. bronze statuet of an exultant young man from the grateful Radio Manufacturers Association...
...North American Buddhist Church. with 12,000 members, has 36 temples, none of them imposing. Having no real estate to spare Bishop Masuyama did not know where he could put a new one. But he planned last week to accept the Manchurian Railways Building, have it dismantled and shipped to the West Coast...