Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastman devoted the last half of his speech to a defense of public service agencies. He asserted that delay, due to so-called bureaucratic red-tape, was a result of the difficulty in interpreting laws, knowing what evidence to accept and exclude, and making a decision fully backed by the most minute detail. If all these factors were not taken into account, endless litigation would quickly follow. But the greatest cause for delay, Eastman believes, is the vast undertaking of collecting data on large interstate organizations...
Months ago the Department of the Interior was proud to accept for Yosemite National Park Museum a collection of 108 paintings by the late Christian Jorgensen. the Norwegian-born artist largely responsible for the acquisition of Yosemite Valley as a National Park (TIME. Dec. 28). This week Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of 14 large landscapes, the first of a series of shows honoring the 100th Anniversary of a far better painter, directly responsible for the entire program of U. S. national parks: Thomas Moran...
...learning. If it is not a place where men may seek the truth with open minds it betrays its true character and purpose. Search for the truth means a constant endeavor to widen the boundaries of knowledge, and there is here a fatal contradiction if men are compelled to accept as final any particular social, political or other philosophy, or if restrictions are placed on their critical faculties, or if they are forbidden to state the truth as they honestly find...
Dean Holmes last night declined to state whether he would accept the appointment "until I receive official notification of it." He said that the Governor had not mentioned the appointment to him previously, and the first knowledge "I had of it came from the papers. It was a complete surprise to me," Holmes declared...
Next in importance after the British Constitutional Question, now safely answered in the United Kingdom, is the Indian Constitutional Question-the question whether the Indian people accept and enter into the spirit of the new Constitution enacted in 1935 by the Mother of Parliaments and sent to them from London, together with a most able new Viceroy, the banker Marquess of Linlithgow (TIME, Oct. 12 et ante). Last week George VI, new King & Emperor, labored chiefly over reports from his Indian Empire...