Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court last week decided a legal case between Kentucky Whip and Collar Co. and Illinois Central Railroad. The company, which makes horse collars and harness with convict labor at Kentucky's Eddyville penitentiary, was seeking legal authority to make the railroad accept 25 shipments of horse collars & harness which it had refused. But the issue at stake was far bigger than it looked. The railroad's refusal was based on the Ashurst-Sumners Act, passed in 1935, forbidding the shipment of convict-made goods into states which forbid its sale...
Nebraskans are quite willing to turn down George Norris' ideas upon occasion. Only last month, McCook held an election to decide whether to accept a PWA offer of $105,000, 45% of the cost of bringing in electricity from the Platte Valley Public Power & Irrigation Project, to replace power now supplied by Iowa-Nebraska Power & Light Co. McCook's voters turned it down by vote of 782-523. But McCook's voters will probably never turn down George Norris himself who, since he has just been reelected, cannot commit political suicide again until 1942 when he will...
...undisclosed group for its 21% interest in the fabulous Barco oil concession. Since little Carib did not have the money to play along with its big partners, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. and Texas Corp., in development of the jungle oil properties in Colombia, the stockholders authorized their directors to accept the offer (TIME...
...bagfuls of threatening letters arriving by each post Mrs. Simpson urgently asked that her five French Government Secret Service guards be not withdrawn. They gallantly reassured her that they were staying, and, as the Lord-in-Waiting had left, it was said directly for Mrs. Simpson that she might accept the Archduchess Ileana's invitation, providing Mrs. Simpson's famed Aunt Bessie can accompany her as chaperon. One of the Lord-in-Waiting's last statements on his word of honor was, "Gentlemen, it is really true that Mrs. Simpson does not know where her aunt...
...Industry must accept its responsibility for the national welfare as being an even higher duty than the successful operation of private business," keynoted Colby Mitchell Chester, chairman of General Foods and NAM's present president...