Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much legislative maneuvring was necessary to get the measure through to the White House. First the Senate, full of ill temper, refused by a vote of 46 to 43, to accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen...
...York at the mill's daily loss of some $40,000, due to the strike, was said to have put Dr. Mothwurf in a peace-making mood. Incognito, Miss Weinstock went to Elizabethton, secretly called upon Dr. Mothwurf, bargained for terms, induced the strike leaders to accept them, harangued the strikers themselves...
...smile on Mr. Moore's face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile...
Five times has the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania chosen a bishop coadjutor to assist and eventually succeed Pennsylvania's Bishop Thomas James Garland (TIME, May 20). Five times have the chosen refused to accept the position...
...last to do so was Dr. Samuel Smith Drury who last week said that "since . . . the nature of this appointment must be of a wholly indeterminate nature I feel no longer impelled to leave work of assured usefulness to accept the post, honorable as it is." By "indeterminate nature" Dr. Drury meant that he could not tell when he would succeed Bishop Garland, which is the in alienable right of all bishop coadjutors when their bishops retire or die. When he was nominated Dr. Drury wrote to Bishop Garland, asked him when he would retire. The Bishop...