Word: acception
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hughes. In Manhattan, Charles Evans Hughes demonstrated how a noncandidate's door is shut and locked. Last May Mr. Hughes said: "I do not wish my name to be used in any contingency. I am too old* to run for President, and I would neither seek nor accept the nomination." Last week Mr. Hughes said: "I am not a candidate in any sense. I am keenly disappointed by President Coolidge's decision. ... I stand by the statement I made last...
...Tucker: A bill. (H. R. 5,340) granting permission to Lieut. Col. Harry N. Cootes, United States Army, to accept certain decorations tendered him; to the Committee on Foreign Affairs...
...bank with documents showing that he has shipped the goods and that he will be paid a certain sum on a certain date. If his commercial credit is good and if the credit of the buyer is good, the bank will discount his "paper." Such "paper" is a "trade acceptance." U. S. banks at present have between $800,000,000 and $900,000,000 worth of trade acceptances representing domestic commercial transactions. They have even more-$975,000,000-representing international business, i. e., U.S. imports & exports. If the bank needs ready cash and if it is a member...
...Democrats who will have a majority most of the time are looking forward to 1928. The role of the Opposition is to oppose and they will not be willing to accept responsibility for clear-cut legislation. So the new Congress promises to be more interesting than fruitful...
Last week Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, liberalist extraordinary, saw one of his dearest ambitions approach its fulfillment when the cornerstone of his new Park Avenue Baptist Church, Manhattan, was set in place. Before Dr. Fosdick accepted the call to this pastorate in 1925, he made several express stipulations. Among these were: a) that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity, b) that Baptist rites and doctrines not be insisted on, c) that the new church be constructed somewhere near Columbia University. The trustees of the richest Baptist congregation in the world agreed to Dr. Fosdick...