Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though he had been forced to hand in his resignation, sick old Aristide Briand clung to his Foreign Office desk at the Quai d'Orsay until the last minute. Premier Laval called personally, begged him to accept an honorary Cabinet post. Brer Briand issued an acid statement: "M. Briand would prefer to study the juridical and diplomatic form in which he might contemplate eventual collaboration...
...oath of allegiance) to bear arms, the petition makes the following declaration: "I, a citizen of the United States, solemnly refuse to acknowledge the obligation which the Supreme Court declares to be binding upon all citizens, whether native-born or naturalized. I have not promised, expressly or tacitly, to accept an act of Congress as the final interpretation of the will of God, and I will not do so. In my allegiance to my country I withhold nothing, not even my life. But I cannot give my conscience. That belongs to God. . . ." This petition, containing many a ''whereas...
...four years of college is to create socially pleasant young men able to get along with their follows, ready to accept the mode of living as they find it, to shoulder the burdens such acceptance implicitly imposes upon them, then Yale, by affording opportunity for training in community life, does its duty well. Undergraduate Yale knows very well what it is about. Education is a necessary stumbling-block to be tripped over willy-nilly on the path toward the real things of Yale. Philosophically, however, the undergraduate feels some good may come of it all. He has great faith...
...explosion the entire Cabinet of white-bearded Premier Inukai bowed their heads in shame and handed in their resignations. The same thing happened nine years ago when Hirohito, then Prince Regent, was shot at as he went to open Parliament. As in 1923 he refused to accept the resignations, but unlike the 1923 Cabinet, Premier Inukai and his Ministers withdrew their resignations...
...doors of their theatres caused strollers to change their minds about spending money for fun. Merchants charged that out-of-town buyers are actually depressed by the scene to the point of curtailing orders. Many an observer has seized the handy conclusion that Publisher Hearst had the hungry accept alms, in the glare of Broadway instead of on a darkened side street- simply to get cheap advertising for his paper. Day before the breadline was opened last month the Welfare Council of New York City sent Publisher Hearst a telegram stating that: 1) breadlines are unnecessary in New York...