Word: admits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn their room on earth at any time in their lives. . . . For a President to admit, however, that such a thought had crossed his mind would be to arouse the phony fury of all the mammy singers in the country and bring down upon himself the accusation of slandering every man's dear old mother and dad. The opposition, "If there were any truth whatever...
Neither Premier Flandin nor Finance Minister Louis Germain-Martin and least of all new Governor Tannery of the Bank of France would admit for one moment that they are "doing a Roosevelt" or anything, remotely like it. For the present
...Stalin was again in top form last week, orating to the directors of the Soviet Union's largest metal plants in Moscow. "We are no longer a country of wood. We are a country of metal!" cried the man whose name means Steel. "The time has come to admit that the most important things to cherish are people who have learned mechanical technique...
...Cornered ex-Pacifist, ex-Socialist James Ramsay MacDonald and forced him to admit that his National Government has no intention of ruling against possession of armament stocks by its members, not to mention the Royal Family. Not without reason the harassed Prime Minister observed: "It is impossible to differentiate between many munitions firms and firms producing material for use in peace time." After brushing aside with irritation an offer from U. S. Armsquisitor Nye to dump into his lap all dirt discovered by the U. S. Senate which could be thrown at Britons, Mr. MacDonald announced that a Royal Commission...
During the War (1916) municipal health officers throughout Great Britain decided to admit the fact that they were no longer professional men but civil servants. They formed a Medical Practitioners Union primarily to protect their civil service rights, but otherwise they kept aloof from the political and economic activities of other British trade unionists. Last week 3,847 members of the Medical Practitioners Union decided to take the final step. They joined the British Trades Union Congress, equivalent of the American Federation of Labor. With the Union Practitioners went the dozens of health officials who belong to the National Union...