Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English-speaking peoples, from the days of Chaucer to our own, know that there has always been a large amount of definite irreligious even under an established church. There are at all times large groups of people who apparently have no need for religion, and even though they accept its outward forms, never have even a remote conception of its significance. The establishment of democracy, which meant the destruction of the "divine right" idea, at once removed the strongest aid of religion and destroyed the most palpable symbol of traditional Christianity. With the rise of industrialism the number of people...
...charge that, friendly to the "Power Trust," he saddled the 3% electricity levy upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect the War Debts by severing diplomatic and commercial relations with Europe and forbidding U. S. banks to accept foreign exchange. The Crisp-Russell campaign was hot & heavy with each side trying to Klux the other with the charge of favoring Catholics for public office. Senator Walter Franklin George was renominated without opposition. Named for Governor to suceed Senator-elect Russell was Eugene Talmadge, Commissioner of Agriculture...
...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
President Hoover was reluctant to accept their advice and change his tactics. He hates campaigning and crowds. Besides, he thinks it would be undignified to get out and hump himself for office like any ordinary politician. Deaf to suggestions for an extended campaign the President finally consented to make three October speeches ,two in the Midwest. one in the East. Beyond that he would not go, even for another four years in the White House...
...made because Mr. Odium wanted Atlas to invest in the kitchen business, but because Pick Barth Holding will probably be reorganized, hence its noteholders will control 500,000 shares of Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.. biggest of assets left in Pick Earth's treasury. If the noteholders accept, Atlas Corp. will control 2,500,000 of Goldman Sachs Trading's 5,700,000 shares...