Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones, a full-fledged delegate to the fruitless conference of 1927 at Geneva, was represented as feeling he should go to the London parley in the same capacity or at least authorized to veto any agreement which he felt did not protect the U. S. Navy. He did not accept his "advisory" role until he heard that his chief, Secretary Adams, was to be a delegate...
Next week he decides not to go in to Boston or accept any invitations to dinner or lunch and religiously eats five lunches and five dinners at the House and only four breakfasts. We find him on Friday night very pleased with himself for having come within thirty cents of breaking even, for be staying home nights he has been able to increase the total value of his meals to $8.20. Evidently he is on the right track so he decides to do this one better and stay home Saturday night too. This is rather a bore because...
...public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada. Regretfully last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada. Minister Phillips' excuse was better than most: to bring up his children in the U. S. Twenty-six years in foreign service had made him one of the State Department's most valued diplomats. He had served...
...required materials are promptly available. Too often they are not. And most of these sins of omission may be traced directly to the laziness or the stupidity of the men in charge of the supplies. The autocratic and abused power of the janitorial staff forces even instructors to accept their dirty dishware with unbecoming fear and trembling...
Catholic Hour. At the meeting of the U. S. Hierarchy it was announced that the National Broadcasting Co. had offered to give Roman Catholicism one hour on the U. S. ether each & every Sunday. The Hierarchy voted to accept this gift, calling upon the National Council of Catholic Men (Admiral William S. Benson, president) for $75,000 to pay for the programs...