Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Senator Borah of Idaho: "Judge Kenyon knows more about law books than about battleships"? a remark which led many to suspect that the Judge might accept the Attorney-Generalship should it fall vacant...
With Berlin committed to the plan, through the adoption of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht's Gold Discount Bank Bill by the Reichstag just before its dissolution*, and Poincare's Government somewhat unwillingly pledged to accept the plan, not only "in principle" but in effect, by the conditions of Morgan's $100,000,000 loan†, the main obstacles to the work of the Drafting Committee were removed...
...addition to these purely internal measures, J. P. Morgan & Co. is reported to have insisted that the French Government accept the Dawes Plan for Reparations...
...Senate Finance Committee, jealous of the grant of such wide powers, inserted the six words into the bill. Their effect would have been to nullify the bill and Poincare refused to accept them...
...governed by the Vatican. The final act of the risorgimento (resurrection of the Italian State) was the forcible occupation of Rome (Sept. 20, 1870) by the troops of King Vittorio Emanuele I. Since that time the Popes have considered themselves prisoners in the Vatican, and have steadfastly refused to accept the annual appropriation of revenues, equivalent to their former revenues from the Papal States, granted them by the Italian Parliament. The King was excommunicated and all good Catholics forbidden to take part in national elections...