Word: accept
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...qualms. Warned that many a Congressman would oppose outright concessions to Business, he had the amortization bill tacked to a complex limitation on excess profits. Net result: certainty that Congress will haggle over this hybrid measure for weeks, while key manufacturers, unsure of their future, remain unwilling to accept Defense orders...
Phantom Arsenals. Anxious to break down the general reluctance of the people to accept dictation and to prevent growing criticism of the Government for not restoring pre-war conditions, the regimented press urged Frenchmen to realize that they cannot expect to recover "the easy life of yore." More than mere anxiety lay behind a Government decree providing the death penalty for civilians found with firearms after July 30. In the chaotic days of the armistice, control was lax and a large percentage of military equipment was not surrendered. Thoughts of this "phantom arsenal" in the hands of a desperate citizenry...
Only in the last five minutes did he turn to Britain. But there was still no concrete program for peace, no specific offer, no suggestion of a possible procedure. Almost as an afterthought he signified his willingness to accept Great Britain's capitulation, virtuously hoped to avoid the impending carnage...
...Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs won't let him, he is prepared to carry on from the Philippine Islands, where he was once correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. He has had offers from Station KZRM in Manila, will accept when Shanghai gets...
Newsman Timmons entered into the fun. He made a speech, declaiming: "If and when I am nominated, I want no one to notify me." He asked for a baby to kiss. Said he: "I will accept no modest sums as campaign contributions-the smallest will be $5,000,000." His colleagues hailed him as another Lincoln, pled with onlookers to wire their delegates collect, draft Timmons for Vice President...