Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lowell flayed block-booking of films as an exhibitor's excuse for showing objectionable pictures. Rebutting Dr. Lowell from New York, Secretary Carl Elias Milliken of the Hays organization observed: "Several years ago a cancellation clause was inserted in block-booking contracts permitting exhibitors to reject up to 10% of the films contracted for. . . . The managers used this clause to reject the so-called highbrow pictures...
Clearly the League is set up on the democratic hypothesis, and the rejection of that hypothesis by two of Europe's greatest nations must call its utility as an instrument into serious question. The dictator can have small truck with parliamentary diplomacy Mussolini has been cold to the League and the Nazis have been adamant France and Great Britain must not relinquish their stand against secret diplomacy, which is the most heady of all stimulants to war. But European economics make war at the present time a virtual impossibility and between the prestige of Geneva and the need for Hitler...
Since only Congress can swallow or reject the British lump, and since Congress is not to meet until January, Sir Frederick and President Roosevelt face the pressing issue of what to do on Dec. 15, when a British annuity payment of $117,000,000 falls due. On the previous annuity date, last June 15, the President accepted a British "token payment" of $10,000,000 in lieu of the $76,000,000 then due. In London last week City financiers were confident that Sir Frederick will offer a "much larger token" on Dec. 15, hoping thus to put Congress...
...gold standard nations (France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium & Poland) nearly frantic. They feared they would be forced off gold should the dollar fall much further, and it had already dipped lower (to 76.3?) than at any time since 1864. President Roosevelt, they knew, was determined to reject any pact for permanent dollar stabilization, but would he agree to a joint statement pledging the world's central banks to steady the dollar, at least for the duration of the Conference? Such a statement must be carefully worded. Locked in a big room the gold standard statesmen, dubbed "Golders" by London...
When the President replied he fired first a pistol, then a broadside. His pistol shot was to reject the Golders: proposal for steadying the dollar with respect to gold. His broadside came two days later in a cablegram which Secretary of State Cordell Hull, vainly attempting to hide his own amazement, read to the hushed, expectant Delegates...