Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wilderness Kermit Roosevelt arrived at Shanghai and announced?lest there be some doubt about it?that his brother would surely accept...
...House, always jumpy about its constitutional prerogatives, stirred with plans for refusing to accept the Senate's farm bill, for refusing even a conference to reconcile differences between it and the House's measure. The Constitution gives the House sole power to initiate revenue legislation. Many a House leader considered the Senate's Debenture plan a revenue item because it would affect tariff income. The Senate countermoved by planning to insert the Debenture Plan in the Tariff Bill when that comes up from the House...
...points were: 1) The farm bill, with its board and its money, will put the Government farther into business than ever before "if it means what it says"; 2) It implies "price-fixing . . . barter and sale, buying and borrowing" by the U. S.; 3) To accept the bill's generalities and gag at its only concrete feature-the Debenture Plan-was "nonsense...
...long (20 years) has Juan Vicente Gomez been Dictator-President of Venezuela that when he positively and repeatedly refused to circumvent his country's constitution "just once more" and accept a fourth term (TIME, May 13), the Venezuelan Congress knew not what to do. Visions of impending revolution, rapine and pillage beset the leaderless legislators. Bundling into motor busses, they rode out again last week from Caracas to Maracay, where the old Dictator, now 72, holds court on his model farm, a Latin-American George Washington at a tropical Mt. Vernon. Seated under his favorite rubber tree, the blue...
Rediscount Collateral. The fourth and final main argument of Mr. Simmons was the somewhat startling suggestion that the Federal Reserve System (the twelve parent banks) be allowed to rediscount stock market loans. Stock market securities are not accepted as collateral at the twelve Reserve Banks, which must make their loans on government or open market paper. But, maintained Mr. Simmons, the supply of restricted securities on which the Federal Reserve System can make loans is rapidly dwindling. The government is paying off its national debt at the rate of a billion dollars a year, and "in 15 years there...