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Word: accepter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrat in a Democratic State Administration, declared: "Your statement is so sweeping as to include every bank and savings institution in the State, but I will not stand on technicalities. If you have information that one bank or savings institution in this State is unsafe, I am willing to accept that as sufficient justification. . . . If I do not hear from you within a reasonable time, I will refer this matter to the Attorney General for such action as is warranted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Knox on Safety | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

...good dumb luck, the situation always unfolded hours ahead of them." The Republican platform was shaped with Editor White representing Kansas on the Resolutions Committee. When the platform was finished he thanked his fellow members, and, not having talked to the Governor in six hours, promised that Landon would accept it. Ten minutes later, as the platform was about to be read to the Convention, White saw Landon's telegram amending three planks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Battle of Booklets | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Sergeant-at-Arms Barry lost his Capitol job when he wrote in the New Outlook that not many Senators accept cash bribes (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pathfinder Prodded | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...Quoddy off its hands, the War Department lighted last week on gaunt Director Aubrey Williams of the National Youth Administration. With some $71,000,000 to spend this year on the welfare of U. S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 25, Director Williams was glad to accept 'Quoddy as a present. He will use the buildings for schoolrooms and workshops on an NYA project, build furniture and equipment for other NYA units throughout the U. S. If & when the 'Quoddy Dam passes muster with Congress, NYA will have to move out, the Army back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Quoddy to NYA | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money until after 1926 when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Quezon Boom | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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