Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strictly speaking, His Serene Highness' action was to accept the estate in payment of a $1,000,000 loan he extended some years ago to his Cousin Baron Rudolf von Guttmann, then "Austria's Coal King," later ruined by the crash of Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8, 1931). Ivar Kreuger and other scamps have incorporated many a wildcat company under the lenient laws of Liechtenstein, kept lenient by shrewd, rich Prince Franz...
...They lunched, played games, sang, heard "More About The Founder" from his nephew Charles P. Eells (Hamilton 1874). Then on Labor Day the Alpha Delts banqueted. Only nonmember of their fraternity at the speakers' table was Hamilton Graduate Alexander Woollcott. Alpha Delt Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unable to accept an invitation to be present. But Bruce Barton was on the program as toastmaster, the following were invited as speakers and listeners: Headmaster Lewis Perry of Exeter, national president of Alpha Delta Phi; President Walter Clark Teagle of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey; Father Frederick Herbert Sill, headmaster...
...Last fortnight the Chicago Herald & Examiner obtained from Germany by telephoto a letter from junketing Mayor Anton Cermak authorizing the issuance of $6,750,000 of tax anticipation warrants, some of which were paid to teachers who had refused city "scrip" last summer. Many Chicago merchants and landlords accept tax warrants...
With U. S. colleges opening in a month or so, many & many a student is counting his dollars, casting up his college budget. In nearly every institution he may apply for a loan, earn part or all of his living expenses. In inland districts there are colleges which will accept farm produce for tuition. If a student is unemployed but properly qualified he may take free courses at places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Washington University (St. Louis) or Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis.). Many another college, like the University of Missouri last week and the University of Iowa three weeks...
...refuse to accept either of these destinies, on the one hand to return to the old saloon with its political and social corruption, or on the other to endure the bootlegger and the speakeasy with their abuses and crime. Either is intolerable. . . . Our objective must be a sane solution, not a blind leap back to old evils...