Word: accordant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your communication . . . you have rightfully exercised your right of petition by applying to one of those able to initiate laws, but I must sincerely tell you that I am the least fitted person to comply with the said petition ... as the constitutional articles you protest against are in perfect accord with my philosophical and political conviction...
...Accord. The initialing of a Franco-German preliminary commercial accord, at Paris last week furnished substantial proof that the fiscal problems of France and Germany are indeed engendering a mutual fiscal interdependence unthinkable before...
Briefly, Germany accords France "most-favored nation" commercial status under the agreement, and France extends similar trade preference to Germary, though avoiding by disguised phraseology the term "most-favored nation." As initialed, the accord becomes effective Aug. 20, 1926, is renewable every six months, is expected to smooth the way for a formal Franco-German trade treaty of similar scope...
...Daniels was never ironic. The rancor of feuds has wiped out many a Tennessee mountaineer, many a Chicago gangster, many a hone of political potentates. Puzzled citizens often wondered why two such potentates, Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, split the Republican party in 1912 by their lack of accord, and thereby became of great assistance in the election of Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. At least one citizen no longer wonders. Last week Dr. Charles A. Moore, acting chief of the Manuscript Department of the Library of Congress, announced the completion of the mounting and filing...
...been formed in a spirit of national reconciliation to meet the danger which threatens the value of our money, the liberty of our treasury and the equilibrium of our finances. . . . "There may arise later questions on which the Cabinet may differ, but today they are entirely in accord on the necessity, on the urgency and on the means of financial salvation. "We will submit to you in a moment a bill intended to cover the present insufficiency of our resources as compared with our commitments. To avoid for all time new risks of inflation we ask you to vote indispensable...