Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risk of losing their money, if they could make it possible to continue his operations. I stated that while I had no property interest in Washington, I was willing to put up $50,000 towards the million dollars I was told that he needed and I was willing to accept the entire loss of my money before anybody else was called upon to lose a single penny. No effort was made to raise this fund...
...kept free to benefit all people. Under the circumstances, it is surprising to find that an Associate Professor in the Harvard School of Public Health should have patented his contribution to the long history of respirator development. It is even more surprising that he should have seen fit to accept royalties for the monopoly of this lifesaving device, which he had transferred to Warren E. Collins, Inc. The transaction suggests a distinct flare for business in this Medical School teacher, inasmuch as he had done his research in the tax-free Medical School shop and had received his Harvard salary...
While many veterans have refused to prostitute their patriotic services and to accept pay for having done their natural and fundamental duty, a large number have assumed the attitude that the government should be mulcted of as much money as possible. This last group fails to realize that the burden of the proposed immediate bonus payments and the load of the wasted millions falls directly on all the people in the shape of taxes, and particularly on this younger generation to which the Great War is only a dim reality. Congress has already permitted veterans to borrow on their bonus...
...time. The Allies sent him as head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission to get a small loan from John Pierpont Morgan. The story goes that in the latter's library Lord Reading boldly asked for a billion dollars. Banker Morgan appeared mildly surprised, suggested that the Allies accept half a billion. Lord Reading returned to the U. S. as special envoy, borrowed billions more. Upon the retirement of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice he became Ambassador at the special request of the U. S. State Department...
Other Hearst cartoonists hammering away at familiar Hearst themes include Walter Joseph Enright, portrayer of the "Jackass Rabbit Congressman" who refused to accept Mr. Hearst's sales tax; Winsor McCay, nightmare man; and Nelson Harding, a Pulitzer Prize-winner when on the Brooklyn Eagle...