Word: according
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department in time to interrupt a friendly conference between outgoing Statesman Stimson and incoming Statesman Hull. Because the League asked a reply as soon as possible, the State Department obliged promptly with something which "did not sound as if it had been written by Mr. Stimson" according to officials of Japan's Foreign Office next day. Possibly written in part by Mr. Hull (though signed by Mr. Stimson) the State Department's cautious reply expressed "substantial accord" with the League's version of facts in Manchuria, "general accord'' with the conclusions of the Assembly...
...President-reject his last speech is generally his most difficult. On domestic questions his voice has ceased to carry popular authority. On foreign issues the nations of the world are inclined to accord him only the scantiest attention. Such was the problem President Hoover faced last week when he journeyed to Manhattan to deliver his valedictory before the National Republican Club. He solved it with an address on the broad subject of gold...
...language a motion to default?though it was so in effect?this measure declared that "The Chamber invites the Government to summon, in accord with Great Britain and other debtors, a general conference ... to adjust all international obligations...
...influence in education, as in anything else. Under the rigid system of the past many students were either completely bored or unable to cope with the curriculum. Today such students have a variety of interests offered to them, so that school is less of a grind and more in accord with the teaching ideal of Montaigne--to inspire the pupil rather than to drive...
President Hoover's proposed cut of 700,000,000 dollars in government costs seems to be in accord with the strong sentiment for federal economy throughout the country. Since it would dangerously impair national credit to continue the budget along the lines of 1929, he has chosen this way of reducing it. Apparently there are two reasons for his doing this. First is his opposition to a beer bill (which would be a lucrative source of revenue to the government); and secondly the fact that a sales tax would be unlikely to pass Congress. The budget has to be balanced...