Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four councils (political, ecclesiastical & educational, commercial, provincial). He, his Chancellor and Cabinet will initiate all legislation, allow or refuse plebiscites, change the Constitution at will; and he may dismiss his Chancellor and Cabinet at will. A Federal Chamber made up of members of the four councils will accept or reject his laws, without comment. The Head of State will control all universities and schools, newspapers, theatres and broadcasting stations. He will maintain the Catholic Church as the privileged and established church...
...right of exhibitors to cancel 10% of the product ... is futile because it is perfectly easy for the producers to put in 10% of films which the exhibitors are certain to reject before reaching the objectionable ones. ... I am very much struck by your explanation of why the representatives of the Government on the Code Authority are not given a vote. You say 'What is the use of a vote against a certain majority?' This assumes that a member of the Code Authority whose only interest in the matter is clean films will find himself necessarily in opposition...
Suddenly a bright idea hit practical Senator Logan. "There is not one line of a charge against Senator Overton with the U. S. Senate yet," he recalled. Senator-reject Broussard, whose accusations had been filed with the Senate committee, although he had not formally contested the election, was advised that charges should be brought "on behalf of the people of Louisiana" to the Senate. The widespread belief that the none-too-courageous Senate committee, in the face of overwhelming evidence of political wrongdoing, was foxily preparing a technical "out" for itself stirred up equally widespread resentment and rage in Louisiana...
...news from Berlin while traveling in southern Germany, he sent a telegram of strong reproof: "I speak only as leader of the Church who is responsible for the preservation of the creed before God. ... It is said, though I can hardly believe it, that the sacred cross has been rejected as the symbol of our Christianity. ... I, as leader of the Protestant Church, reject such a spirit with all my energy. ... I shall never permit that such heresies shall be taught in the Protestant Church...
...first desideratum is to examine more closely the records and capabilities of applicants for admission, to reject those who are unprepared or unfit for advanced work of any sort. The Graduate School today is clogged up with men who have chosen scholarship as an easy way to support themselves, who have no impetus to their work except a professional and economic one, who will reach their intellectual peak when they are given their degree. Naturally, graduate study is professional, but in the arts and sciences, it ought to spring from a full-blooded and passionate interest in one or more...