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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese bases to get supplies; how Chinese guerrillas have set up well-functioning administrations which do everything from harrying the Japanese to keeping schools open; how they maintain their own small arsenals, form cooperatives to sell foodstuffs, have opened a bank which issues guerrilla money that the peasants gladly accept. At this bank Captain Carlson had no trouble in cashing a traveler's check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Behind the Lines | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Communism actual or alleged was involved in violent, internal dissensions. As in the automobile industry, factionalism flared at the moment when Atlantic and Gulf Coast shipowners were beginning to accept the fact that a new union was on deck and had to be recognized. Unlike U. A. W., N. M. U.'s Communism, rooted down into the rank & file, was bitterly defended and attacked there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Rocking Chairs | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...that Germany could be persuaded to enter into it, Miss Thompson cites the little-known Ha'avara arrangements between Germany and the Jews in Palestine. Ha'avara, an organization for the transfer of .capital of German-Jewish emigrants, five years ago succeeded in getting Germany to accept frozen German-Jewish funds to pay for exports. German exporters get paid for the goods they ship to Palestine out of earmarked emigrant funds (blocked marks). By this method, some 82,000,000 marks in goods have been transferred to Palestine in the last five years and 14,000 refugee families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Refugees, Inc. | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...German and Sudeten press gleefully asserted that by sending Lord Runciman Britain had "recognized" the Sudeten Germans. In Berlin, a prominent Nazi editor, with typical Aryan ineptitude, told to Associated Press (stipulating that he be not named), "No really sovereign state would accept an adviser such as Viscount Runciman. Can you imagine Switzerland, for instance, standing for such an adviser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Britain-on-the-Danube | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...editorial section, long known as "the dignity page." Here were expositions of significant national and international developments ; detailed exposés of economic, religious, racial repression, written by reporters who knew their stories would get into print. Most spectacular example of his editorial discretion was his iron refusal to accept the news of the Armistice that turned out to be false. Bovard was always calm, never lost control of his emotions. Once his star rewrite man got a big story just before the deadline, became so nervous that his fingers froze. Bovard walked over to his typewriter and remarked: "Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sealed Envelope | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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