Word: reject
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just ahead of Banker Wiggin hurried Politician Hitler. Flinging himself into a big armchair at the Kaiserhof Hotel on the afternoon that Wall Street had its Hitler scare, he surprisingly declared: "Germany cannot pay both her political [Reparations] and her commercial [short-term credit] debts. For my part I reject the payment of political debts which are the result of extortion and have no legal basis. On the other hand, I accept the obligation to pay commercial debts which have been contracted as between businessmen...
...political post. Claudius Hart Huston had to retire in near disgrace. Fussbudgety little Senator Fess of Ohio, present incumbent, is widely rated a party liability. Last week the Wet Eastern wing of the G. 0. P. renewed its cries for his removal. William Scott ("Boss") Vare, Pennsylvania's Senator-reject whose plumping for Herbert Hoover at Kansas City in 1928 gave him the nomination on the first ballot, declared: "The people are tired of Prohibition . . . the re-election of President Hoover is extremely doubtful. . . . Unless the policies of the party are changed, I doubt that 1932 will be a Republican...
...must be pooled by the roads themselves to meet the fixed charges on bonds of lines which cannot possibly meet them this year. The machinery to handle this task the Commission blithely left for the roads themselves to devise. The roads were given until Dec. 1 to accept or reject the Commission's offer. William Zebina Ripley, professor of political economy at Harvard & onetime member of the I. C. C., surveyed the decision, found it to his liking. The Commission, by denying the horizontal increase (which might diverge more freight from the roads than the benefits would compensate...
Married. Dorothy Vare, daughter of the late Pennsylvania State Senator Edwin H. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-reject William Scott ("Boss") Vare; and Thomas Read Hulme, son of Vice President Thomas Wilkins Hulme of the Pennsylvania Railroad; at Ambler, Pa. Giver-away: Edwin H. Vare Jr. who married Golfer Glenna Collett (TIME, July...
Observers and statesmen agree that the 72nd Congress, which convenes Dec. 7, will be one of the most momentous sessions in U. S. history. It will have to ratify or reject President Hoover's moratorium on Europe's debts. With a huge Treasury deficit on hand, it will have to debate taxation. At the same time it will debate a national Dole and, though the American Legion voted self-denial, there will be a fight to pay the Bonus in cash, in part if not in full. With Bar, Labor and Legion behind them, the Wet members will...