Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ROCHESTER, N.Y.--Frank E. Gannett, newspaper publisher, speaking at a testimonial dinner tendered him here tonight, said that he will accept the pleas of "men and women high in the Republican party" and will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President on a platform pledging preservation of democracy "along with prosperity...
...must be Mr. Roosevelt. "He is our Lincoln," cried Young Hickory. To grumblers who beef because the President will not declare himself on the third term he had an answer, presumably straight from headquarters: "Why should Franklin Roosevelt be the one man in all public life now committed to accept or not accept a nomination? . . . We do not want to put the greatest asset of the Democratic party in hock...
...ought to have her pants spanked instead of getting publicity." When Unity was delayed two days in reaching Folkestone, popular excitement touched fever pitch and her father, Insurance Tycoon Lord Redesdale, was offered ?5,000 for a statement by one of the big London dailies. "I wouldn't accept ?25,000," cried Lord Redesdale. "Many untrue stories have been circulated. I have even been called a Fascist...
...placate the press, Brazil's new censorship rules are considerably milder than the old. Censors stationed in news offices are withdrawn. As in Italy and Germany, newsmen file and print what they please, must accept responsibility if they violate the President's ideas of propriety. But censors are stationed in all cable offices to read outgoing dispatches-just in case...
...Last week, however, the U. S. journal Science reprinted parts of a fiery resolution recently adopted by the Kremlin's official astronomers, subsequently published in the Astronomical Journal of the Soviet Union: "Modern bourgeois cosmogony is in a state of deep ideological confusion resulting from its refusal to accept the only true dialectic-materialistic concept, namely, the infinity of the universe with respect to space as well as time...