Word: accepted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will accept the nomination for President. I will make no effort to control any delegates. The people should decide. The candidate should be selected at primaries and convention as provided by law, and I sincerely trust that all Democrats will participate in them...
...issued an appeal, got newspapers to accept contributions for Finnish relief, telephoned an address to a mass meeting in Manhattan. He wrote: "America has a duty to do its part in the relief of the hideous suffering of the Finnish people. Our people should have an outlet in which to express their individual and practical sympathy...
...public opinion refuses to accept railroads as monopolies although, perversely, it approves having the Interstate Commerce Commission regulate them as such...
...Harvard Divinity School, he said, does not accept for registration any applicant planning to enter college teaching, even in the field of religion. The eighty students last year represented thirteen different church denominations, he said...
...door of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, one of our most arbitrary and unsavory unions. Its leaders are a colorful crew, to say the least. Take Uncle Willie Bioff, for example, whose name has been connected with three labor murders, who has been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands, or get out. As an instance, sets being shifted...