Word: accepting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech in favor of justice, fair dealing, mutual respect, cooperation, solidarity. A better showman was New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, colorful Latin and good American, who called Pan America "a democracy of democracies," said it had no "big brother" and would accept "no ersatz for God Almighty...
...conditioning is a new industry. Yet War-Conditioning is newer still-and older. I wasn't exposed to the 1914-17 program, but I'm already plenty sick of current efforts to condition our minds to the idea that "our part is inevitable" etc. . . . Would Hi Johnson accept the honorary chairmanship of an Anti-War-Conditioning Club...
...this?" asked impatient Lord Beaverbrook in his Evening Standard. Was anything ever going to happen? Were Britain and France in it up to their necks, or had they just put a toe in to see how cold it was? Were they stalling until Poland was beaten to accept the expected German peace offer...
Most startling chapter in Dr. Butler's autobiography is "On Keeping Out of Public Office." "The pressure upon me to accept public office," says he, "began early and has been unremitting all these years." Offices he says he has turned down: New Jersey legislator, U. S. Representative and Senator, U. S. Commissioner of Education, U. S. Ambassador to London or Berlin, U. S. Secretary of State (offered by President Harding), New York City's Mayor, New York's Governor. But Republican politicians have long known there was one office Nicholas Murray Butler coveted. Biggest Butler boom...
...Roosevelt's neutrality proclamation put the lid on any more shipments until Congress should revise the neutrality act. To planemakers this meant little. In taking over $100,000,000 worth of foreign orders in recent months, they had put a clause in their contracts requiring foreign buyers to accept delivery in the U. S. if export became illegal. Now Britain and France have to take the risk that the arms embargo may not be repealed...