Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situation contains many kinds of political and social dynamite. One wonders if the Negroes as a race will be wise to accept the solicitation of the Northern Democratic leaders, to change their party affiliation...
...this Aberhart mummery so vexed the Canadian Manufacturers' Association that its Alberta branch announced that it flatly refused to accept a single prosperity certificate. Local manufacturers, wholesalers and large retailers loudly protested, but issued no such ultimatum. Small shopkeepers, many of them pious adherents of the Premier's Prophetic Bible Institute, declared they were ready to take as many velocity dollars as they could without going insolvent "to give the plan a chance." Premier Aberhart and Cabinet decided to accept part of their salaries in prosperity certificates. First Alberta community approached by the Premier to put his scheme...
Last spring 7,000 gloomy Amoskeag mill hands filed into the Manchester Armory, voted by a slim majority to accept $9.60 a week if the plant would reopen. Few days later the flood crest of the Merrimack River wiped out $2,500,000 worth of Amoskeag property, ruined all hopes of putting the plant in operation. Editorialized the Boston Herald last week: "If there is any satisfaction for the unemployed in knowing that they stuck to the ship to the last, these Amoskeag workers have...
...months ago Runner Gene Venzke sold an article to the Saturday Evening Post, asked permission to accept a check for $400. The Amateur Athletic Union refused, said the Satevepost might donate the money to charity. Last week the A. A. U. named the charity: the U. S. Olympic Committee, which will pay $400 to get Runner Venzke to Berlin & back...
...Brussels on a conference as to what is to be done, if anything, about Germany's violation of the Locarno Pact by remilitarizing the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). After the Vienna broadcast it was sharply announced in Rome that Germany must be invited to Brussels and must accept before Italy will even consider sitting in, and Il Duce tagged on a few more things he wants before sending an Italian diplomat even to talk about Locarno...