Word: accepts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automobile. Mr. Luer's sons, fearful lest their father's serious heart ailment be fatally aggravated by the shock of his capture, broadcast that Mr. Luer should be allowed to stand up if an attack came on, should be given no coffee, only mild cigars. "We cannot accept any ring, stickpin, or fingerprints," they warned. "You can take such things from a dead man. We must have something in father's handwriting." After five days old Mr. Luer was turned loose on a road near Collinsville. He had been kept, he said, in a dank, narrow concrete...
...General Johnson felt that some such summary step was necessary to help purchasing power and consumption catch up with production and prevent a fresh collapse. He drafted a 35-hour, $14-per-week sample but nowhere in the Recovery Act could his lawyers find authority to compel industries to accept such a set of regulations until they framed their own. Over the week-end General Johnson put up to the President a proposal for issuing such a temporary general code and following it up with a Wartime publicity campaign to induce all employers to subscribe voluntarily...
...Berlin sword-handy Ludwig Diels, Chief of the Prussia Police who now have 12,000 Germans behind barbed wire, said last week that he has accepted from prominent prisoners eleven challenges to rapier duels, six to sabre duels and one to a pistol duel "unto death." The pistol challenger is Prisoner Max von Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There...
...that our delegates sailed knowing in advance that they were going to refuse stabilization. The attitude which they are now stubborn in seems rather to be a sudden shift caused in part by the unexpected results of recent measure. It is difficult to understand why the President should not accept the offer of gold-standard countries who wish to secure our money at the same rate we are waiting for, and why the Federal Reserve is tacitly encouraged to operate in foreign exchange to support the dollar when it obviously cannot influence the franc or pound with a handful...
...lady in the parlor, and economics as the kitchen maid who did the work: I had hoped that the kitchen would be able to discipline itself. Indeed we were making progress in that direction, but there was always a small minority who refused co-operation and were unwilling to accept selfdiscipline. They represented rugged individualism at its worst. . . . So business having failed to discipline itself, I see no escape from some direction and control by the lady in the parlor, but I am not willing to turn the kitchen over to the lovely lady who talks so easily...