Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told a Senate committee last April: ". . . This program must be such that American citizens accept it as a matter of right-with no feeling of social inferiority." He saw six things...
...before a president was elected. No delegate wanted the post, each fearing that his nation would then be responsible for the conference's all-too-probable failure. Finally stocky, publicity-hating Myron C. Taylor, onetime Chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. and chief U. S. delegate, agreed to accept...
...persons (who can support themselves) from Greater Germany next year. Almost sole note of encouragement came from eight Latin American nations: Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico and the Dominican Republic (which nine months ago massacred 1,000 neighboring Haitians because they moved into her territory), offered to accept a limited number of refugees if they came as agricultural workers...
Britain's individual settlement with the Reich leaves the other Austrian creditor nations to fend for themselves, with little hope of compensation unless they are willing to accept payment in German goods. The U. S., with at least $20,000,000 owed on the Austrian debt, is in no position to drive a settlement since she annually sells $29,280,000 more to Germany than she is forced to buy. So far, Washington has dispatched three notes of protest against Germany's failure to pay. Germany has not troubled to answer...
...conversations with John L. Lewis and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, Big Steel last week said not a word, but the press reported that the company was trying to persuade Mr. Lewis to accept a wage cut as amicably as U. S. Steel accepted unionization a year and a half ago. Big Steel's subsequent action in cutting prices without cutting wages was thus more striking. It came also just as the Administration's monopoly investigation-whose first subject is likely to be Big Steel-got going. What was more, Big Steel's young Chairman Edward...