Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...influence ... is necessary to save the situation from serious consequences both to labor and the public." Portland's usually mild Mayor Joseph K. Carson, in Washington for the Mayors' Conference, dashed off a letter to Chairman Madden of the Labor Board demanding immediate intervention or "that you admit your inability to handle the situation or power to alleviate the workers...
With the notable exception of Duveen Bros. Inc., who frequently lend pictures to other exhibitions but never admit the general public to their own, major Manhattan art marts have come to consider themselves semi-public institutions, frequently stage expensive, elaborate loan exhibitions that can bring them nothing but prestige. Well in the top rank of such shows was one that opened in Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week, the most complete showing of the works of Toulouse-Lautrec the U. S. has ever seen...
...depression had started, but no one was willing to admit it. A period of retrenchment, a short deflation, was all that people called it. The Stadium and Bowl were still filled. It was still the period of graduate coaching and no public sale. Barry Wood and Captain Ben Ticknor managed to pull out a Harvard victory...
...resent intensely the necessity of hunting among the many advertisements for the news items I subscribed to get. I must admit that along with many others I'm completely fed up on this advertising business...
...Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau (Taylor Holmes) boasts "I have achieved. you must admit, the biggest goddam deficit...