Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ironic angle: the money which George Berry wanted, Tom Stewart did not want. By accepting it he would accept Senatorhood before his term as Attorney-General expires, which would give Tennessee's Governor Browning (his and Boss Ed Crump's enemy) a chance to handpick an interim Attorney-General...
...Wage & Hour Administrator Elmer Frank Andrews found businessmen worrying most about overtime pay for their higher salaried employes. Back in Washington last week, Elmer Andrews gave employers hope that they may soon be relieved of this wage-hour problem. Off-hand in press conference he indicated that he would accept an amendment to the law, perhaps a plan to remove restrictions on the hours of employes who get over $150 a month, have guaranteed annual vacations and other privileges, yet are not now exempt as executives or professionals. Whether his own legal division would prepare such an amendment, or whether...
Bigwig Texas Democrats who are nursing the Garner embryo would rather have waited awhile. But when Red River County invited them to its party, they could do nothing but accept...
This lack of basic harmony among the conferees was nowhere better reflected than in the Conference's opening. Most of the delegates had come with resolutions to propose, and most of the others were willing to accept them-with reservations. They were willing to endorse hemispheric defensive military cooperation from the U. S.-but no military alliances. They were willing to damn totalitarianism in general-but no specific totalitarian state in particular. ("The position of America is one of collaboration, not rebuke," said General Benavides.) They were willing to accept the principle of Argentina's strictures against disruptive...
Suggesting that it is best to meet the devil on his own ground, Elliott favored preparedness, and a renewal of the fighting spirit. "The defeatism in the air will kill democracy; by cracking these systems, we can save it. We don't have to accept the inevitable war on Hitler's terms...